Quick product update that went live in the last 24 hours: When you struggle to hit your power targets or end a workout early, the post-workout survey now lets you log Heat or Menstrual Cycle as the reason in a single tap, instead of typing it into the notes field.
Over the past few years, a lot of you have asked us for a way to flag when your menstrual cycle affected a workout. And when we looked at what athletes were typing into the notes field when a workout didn’t go to plan, Heat was the most common write-in. So instead of making you type these out every time, we turned them into options you can just tap.
Here is how it shakes out:
- Heat is available to every athlete. If you cooked yourself in a hot room or a hot day and could not hold the targets, you can now say so in a tap.
- Menstrual Cycle is available to any athlete whose account is not set to male.
No more typing it out every time. Just pick the reason and go. You can use them going forward, and you can also go back. If you reopen the survey on a past workout where you struggled to hit your power targets or ended early, the new options will be there for you.
A couple of things worth saying:
This is about improving user experience and giving TrainerRoad AI better data so it can give you better workouts.
Making these options available via a tap rather than having to type them in makes it easier for you, and also increases the likelihood of you filling out that reason in your surveys since you don’t have to type it in. Also, when you tell us why a workout went the way it did, the model can account for it instead of guessing. A workout you cut short because you were overheating is not the same as one you cut short because you have lost fitness, and the more precisely you can tell us which it was, the more precisely we can respond. Two taps, and we learn a lot. It is a loop: you give us better information, we give you better training.
This is just the first step.
This is the first of a series of improvements we are making to the post-workout survey over the coming months, all aimed at the same goal: helping TrainerRoad AI understand your training more precisely so your recommendations get sharper. Nate has talked a bit about where this is headed on the podcast already, so this is us starting to deliver on it.
Why are you shipping an update that isn’t addressing the FTP volatility bug?
We have as many people working on the FTP volatility bug as possible and the vast majority of our resources are allocated to it. That said, there are teams that are working on shipping constant improvements in other areas, and this is an example of that. We’ve always tried to deliver on athlete-requests, and we’ll continue doing so.
Anybody can use this now, as long as you’ve updated your TrainerRoad app within the last month or so (version 2026.19 or later). If you’re on an older version of the app, you’ll still be able to choose these survey options for completed workouts from the web calendar at TrainerRoad.com.
There’s a blog post here that contains the details and serves as a sticky link: NEW: Log Heat or Menstrual Cycle on a TrainerRoad Workout | TrainerRoad Blog
Give it a try next time a workout goes south, and as always, tell us what you think. This stuff genuinely shapes what we build next.
Thanks!
