Some of the charts only make sense when you’ve collected power data over a long period of time, but still i’m not quite sure how to read the ‘intervals’ page. How are people using this to compare / identify something, and perform some kind of action based on what the graph is showing?
For example - anaerobic intervals in the chart below. The only takeaway I can see is that the events shown include no TrainerRoad workouts (!) So i’m racing for 4hrs going well over 150% of FTP many times, but not training that at all. Hmmm.
I’ve done Sustained power build and XC marathon specialty, then race on dirt and… the results show that race exertions are spiky as hell, and i’m not training it.
Any other takeaways, comments or ideas on how people are or can use this chart?
I was doing torque intervals earlier this year and I used it to plot the improvement in each set. But that page was one of the first and could definitely do with some work!
As many of you, I really like intervals.icu and the work @davidtinker is putting in. Someone in the original thread over at intervals.icu stated the following:
Tx. It’s still a “work in progress”. I had to turn off the “download old activities” button, need a way to deal with duplicates. I hope to end up with something as seamless as the existing Strava integration (automatic download of history as needed).
As I read past the headline I realized we still need strava to log on to intervals.icu. Will you be able to offer an alternative?
Best practice for me will be sync garmin workouts to TR but not vice versa. So I‘ll get outdoor rides and strength workouts into the TR calender but no TR workout dublicates in garmin connect iq. Since intervals will sync with garmin I‘ll finally be able to ditch that strava middle man acting as a fit file dealer across platforms. About time. Looking forward to it
Yes you will not need to have a Strava or Garmin Connect a/c to use Intervals.icu. The platform connectors will be optional and enable automatic download of activities … manual upload is already supported.
As you might guess refactoring a Strava app like Intervals.icu to be standalone is quite a big job.
No I had to disable the “load old data from Garmin Connect” button as many people were getting duplicates with no easy way to delete them in bulk. I need to sort that out first. Its coming soon!
You can manually upload .fit files (“Upload” button on the calendar) if you have those.
David, thanks I understand.
I have a few years worth of TR trianing on GC (not on Strava) so I’ll wait until you come up with a solution. In the meantime I’ll make a donation
Thanks
Hi David, regarding the message that there’s a new version of intervals.icu available: I need to click OK twice almost every time I visit the site (with Safari on iPad/iOS). Any way to make this go away/happen in the background?
Yes sorting that out is one of the things on the todo list. It’s a bit tricky because I can only really test it properly in live. Busy with the final bits of work on the Strava separation project and then I will be able to get back onto these things.
@davidtinker I am trying to use your site for some efficiency factor stuff, but I had 3ish weeks where my heart rate monitor would stop updating but keep sending data. This means I have a bunch of rides that have me putting out 300+ watts at 72 bpm and 120 watts at 160bpm. This makes the chart… less useful. Is there a way to clean out the bad HR data form those rides without removing all the rides for a month?
I believe he said if you were already in you were good to go or could switch to Garmin Connect, to free up space for new Strava people as there is an absolute limit to Strava slots. which is the reason he is “separating”
No you’ll still be able to do it. He just wants to make the web app no longer 100% reliant on Strava for data. So you can stay with Strava or you can switch over to Garmin Connect which would free some bandwidth for more new users to use Strava.
