Has TrainerRoad Dropped the Ball?

There’s three problems with the workout search interface.

  1. When looking at the interface the “hard start” option isn’t shown until after checking the box for either threshold or SST. It’s a low discoverability design that makes the features that are there easy to miss / hard to know they are present.
  2. The same concept (intervals that start much harder than the rest of the interval) is called “hard start” if it’s a threshold or SST workout but it’s called “attacks” if it’s VO2 or sprint workout.
  3. If I search for “hard start” in the search box I get 112 workouts but if I search using the filters like you showed then I get 345 workouts. If I search for a word that the workout is already tagged with for filtering, it absolutely should find works with that tag. At a minimum I should get 345 workouts by typing “hard start”. In fact I should probably also get attack workouts too.
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