# What are your favorite data fields for indoor workout, outdoor workout and group ride?

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**Created:** [September 24, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443 "2021-09-24T20:29:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/1 "2021-09-24T20:29:24Z")

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A guy I was riding with today was surprised I have my current speed displayed on my head unit. After some thought I guess he was right, what do I care how fast I’m going?

Here’s what I have (right now). Wow looking at my setup… it makes ZERO sense! lol

**Workout**  
Current Speed  
Heartrate  
Distance  
Active Time  
Time of Day  
Avg Speed

**Climbing**  
Average Power 5s  
Heartrate  
Total Ascent  
Current Elevation  
Distance  
Grade

**Wahoo Map Screen**  
Current Speed  
Heartrate  
Distance Next Cue  
Avg Power 3s

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**Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/2 "2021-09-24T21:07:35Z")

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**Workout**  
target power  
3s avg. power  
lap avg. power  
lap time  
next interval target power

**Group ride** (my “kitchen sink” page)  
speed  
elapsed time  
hr  
cadence  
ride tss  
time of day

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**Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/3 "2021-09-24T21:25:32Z")

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I have the TR recommended screen set up for out doors work outs (or indoor on a virtual course), IIRC its  
Segment Time to go;  
Interval Average Power (+ Target Range);  
3s Power;  
Interval Graphic;  
% Max HR (I think TR say bpm but I prefer %max); and  
Cadence.

For indoors workouts its mainly the TR screen but I run my Garmin parallel. It has:  
3s Power;  
Lap Power (although I often forget to press lap);  
Lap time;  
% Max HR; and  
Cadence.

Ive never done a group work out but if I did I cant see it being any different from above.

Edit: for a leisure/group ride its:

Speed Graphic  
Power Graphic  
Cadence Graphic  
Time of the Day  
% Max HR

I’ll have a second data screen I’ll sometimes jump to (but not always) for other stats (Elevation, Temperature and battery life, etc)

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**Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/4 "2021-09-24T23:56:47Z")

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For inside and outside workouts, majority of the time my screen shows this:

![Default Workout Comparison](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/3/0/30575b27a66bdb3e6c67cf6eaf43843be9d665a6.png)

and one click up to quickly check HR:

![Warmup Check HR](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/8/f/8f954c09ee86c8e9a7781b8e5f749b3a337056b6.png)

looks like a warmup interval.

No workout loaded, focused on zone2 (blue):

![Workout Details Power Graph z2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/5/a/5a21c921187f319de1306093ed21cddb81ac5d9e.png)

this one is mostly used on group rides, where the ride leader will ask everyone to pull at say 20mph. So having speed on this and the navigation page is important. Hmm, 21mph in flatland at that power for me means one thing - strong tailwind!!!

Have a bunch of other screens, the ones above are used all the time.

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**Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 1:13am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/5 "2021-09-25T01:13:01Z")

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Outdoor workout:  
Interval time  
3s Powet  
Interval NP  
Interval Ave Pwr  
cadence  
HR

Indoor workout:  
TR in minimized mode

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**Author:** ![mailman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/mailman/32/101794_2.png) [@mailman](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/mailman)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/6 "2021-09-25T05:31:55Z")

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Everyday Riding:

3s Power  
Cadence  
Ride Time (elapsed)  
Time of Day  
Distance

Racing/Preferred screen if I don’t have to keep an eye on the Time of Day:

3s Power  
Normalized Power  
Distance

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**Author:** ![Donoman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/donoman/32/155771_2.png) [@Donoman](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Donoman)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/7 "2021-09-25T12:06:23Z")

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Great setups!

What is the Normalized Power important for? I figure that’s something of a summary of the workout effort?

Also I didn’t know you could add IF to the display. That’s neat, thanks!!

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**Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 12:29pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/8 "2021-09-25T12:29:05Z")

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Indoors  
 ![2037](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/1/1/11b79a3065dee6a8aaf2abdf4bc79b490c1c62f3.jpeg)

Outdoor structured workout  
 ![625](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/f/b/fb999a80c67e2679b91f227ab074045811af174a.jpeg)

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**Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/9 "2021-09-25T14:20:21Z")

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What head unit are these from?

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**Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/10 "2021-09-25T14:34:39Z")

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Garmin Edge 530, using some Connect IQ data fields

**Power Slider**  
 ![4dfdefdb-99e4-4f53-8a79-bc9bec9cbd0d](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/a/0/a0606c579832186f584dfddbcf4fefd8e00debf0.jpeg)

**Average Power Field**  
 ![ae94c246-8764-418a-a87e-8d986d1a11de](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/d/d/ddaf4978b587cbc51de13a825c955f306984ed9d.jpeg)

and **Target Power** - for outdoor workouts so I don’t have do do the sums to workout what I should be aiming for

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**Post date:** [September 25, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/what-are-your-favorite-data-fields-for-indoor-workout-outdoor-workout-and-group-ride/63443/11 "2021-09-25T14:59:36Z")

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Looks like the Garmin UI is much more sophisticated than the Wahoo UI with sliders
