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Training Load Balance, based on your Training Load Scores, includes both intensity and duration but it doesn’t provide any insight into the distribution of running intensities in your training.
A longer run at a lower intensity can produce the same Training Load Score as a shorter run at a higher intensity.
Yet intensity is important, as the adaptations from higher intensities may be quite different than those from lower intensities.
And you may want to match those adaptations to your goal race โ training for a marathon may have a different mix of intensities than training for a 5k.
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A TID chart groups your time spent at each intensity into 3 or more groups, then displays the result as a stacked bar chart, with each stacked bar representing a week of training.
When Running with Power, the groups are typically ranges based on percentages of your Threshold Power. This ensures that when your Threshold Power changes, your adjusted intensities are still relative to what you’re capable of (and it means you donโt need to adjust the chart).
You can produce the chart for completed workouts to check the mix that you ran. Or you can produce the chart for planned workouts, to adjust the mix youโre planning to run, using planned Training Load Scores).
The TID chart is the third key metric for monitoring your training (along with Training Load Balance and Ramp Rate).
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โ Questions?
๐ Getting Started
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โฉ What is Training Load?
โฉ Training Load – a two-sided coin!
โฉ Achieving a Training Load Balance
โฉ The danger of ramping up too quickly
โฉ Race-specific training