📣⚡️ Power Records is Now Available for All Athletes!⚡️📣

Power Records is officially live for everyone! :rocket:

You can find it in the workout details drawer when you click into any workout (planned, completed, or from the workouts list).

What it shows you

Power Records plots the workout’s power curve against your best efforts at each duration. The blue line is the workout. The orange line is your personal bests from the comparison period.

The default comparison is your last 6 weeks of Normalized Power. If you want a different date range, open the date selector and choose from Quick Ranges, Seasons, or a Custom Range. You can also toggle between Normalized Power and Average Power depending on what you want to see.

At a glance, you can tell whether a workout is asking for power you’ve already proven you can do, or whether it’s pushing into new territory.

Why this matters

When FTP goes up, the worry is that workouts are about to get way too hard. When it drops, the worry is they’ll be too easy and you’re losing fitness. Power Records answers both directly by showing you the exact watts of your workouts after an FTP change.

Nate showed a good example in a recent thread: an athlete had a 26 W FTP difference (302 vs 328), but their next planned threshold workout from the AI only differed by 1 W in average power.

Instead of guessing whether a workout is appropriate based on FTP alone, you can see exactly how the planned watts compare to what you’ve recently done.

How to use it

  1. Open any workout from your calendar.
  2. Look at the Power Records chart in the workout detail drawer.
  3. Compare the workout’s power curve against your recent bests.

If the planned watts are close to or below your recent efforts, the workout is in the right range. If something looks off, you have real data to evaluate it rather than relying on how the FTP number feels.

Where to find it

  • Planned workouts on your calendar
  • Completed workouts on your calendar/activity list
  • Any workout from the workouts list

We’re working on more detailed guides and walkthroughs for Power Records. In the meantime, we wanted to get it in your hands so you can start using it! Let us know what you think.

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Apologies. I already found a small error.

If you flip from NP to “Power" it looks like it’s taking a 30 second rolling average, so it’s showing today’s 4 minute intervals in Nebo at 265w when they should be at 274w.

The workout power records are showing as 274w for 3m30s but then tail off gradually to 269w for 3m45s and 265w for 4m0s.

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Don’t get me wrong. I’m not knocking progress but why would you need or want to track NP ? It’s a massively variable metric and was never intended for this purpose.

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Nice rollout Putting it right in the workout details makes it easy to sanity check sessions after an FTP change when the number moves but the real ask in watts barely shifts. The NP vs average toggle is useful too, although the Power view probably needs a quick look if it smooths short intervals a bit too much.

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Seems I am getting the same. Looking at Power for today’s workout of Thimble +2 which is 60 sec repeats at 417W. And the 1m power it is showing for this workout is is 362W.

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Very cool feature and thank you TR team for adding this. Neat to be able to filter between endurance rides, sprints and all rides to see where you are at. Kudos

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Yeah really cool - my only slight criticism is that it takes quite a bit of scrolling now to get to the alternates - but only a minor annoyance.

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The nice thing is you can pick power or NP to compare.

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My screen doesn’t show this information in the app or desktop; is this a “gradual rollout”?

Did you click on a workout? It’s under the table showing the levels in a workout.

Try logging out and back into the app. Maybe you’re not up to date..

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Logged out and back in, tried three different browsers on desktop, and updated the app on iOS which I thought for sure was the problem because it needed to be updated.

Very cool feature, way better than comparing workouts in two windows whenever I had a hard workout coming that I wasn’t sure of.

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There are a few workouts that don’t show the chart due to a minor issue on the back end. We have a fix in progress for this that should roll out sometime today.

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This is cool, thank you.

When making a comparison against previous efforts, there is a big difference between a one-time effort at a particular duration versus having to do n intervals at that duration. For example, my race efforts or even FTP testing efforts (like ramp tests) tend to dominate the reference numbers. These singular efforts are just not comparable against intervals.

So is it possible to add some filtering on the reference data to make the comparison more meaningful? e.g. exclude non-workouts, exclude FTP tests, etc. Another approach would be to have a configurable number of intervals (n) and compute the power curve as the average of the best n intervals at that duration in the activity. Obviously this would require much more computation on the back-end rather than just the pre-computed power curves. Thanks!

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The easiest thing would be to put it inside a collapsible box and preserve the collapsed state. Especially you could do that also for the predicted difficulty so that users that don’t want to see that just collapse it one time and done.

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I was thinking the same :+1:

We have some improvements to this end coming soon.

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