𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐬
Power is a complete system using effort as its fundamental metric.
Power uses your second-by-second effort from completed workouts to calculate metrics that build a detailed picture of your individual running capabilities.
Imagine you run 3 times per week for around an hour each time. That’s 60 pieces of data per minute, 3600 per hour and over 3 runs, over 10,000 pieces of data. That’s a lot of data!
Which is why power relies on power-aware applications (‘apps’) to calculate your metrics.
𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩?
The choice is yours, but some apps are more power-aware than others, with the best apps able to calculate the most important metrics.
𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭?
✅ Threshold Power. Represents your current running fitness.
✅ Stress Score. A score (per workout) that combines ‘how hard?’ and ‘how long?’ to represent the workout’s metabolic stress – its impact on your body.
✅ Stress Balance. Indicates whether your training is ‘productive’ – enough stress to encourage adaptations, but not so much that there is a greater risk of injury or over-training.
✅ Ramp Rate. Replaces ‘the 10% rule’ with a metric based on your training volume and intensity, to monitor whether you’re adding training load too quickly.
✅ Running Effectiveness. Measures how effectively you convert power into speed, used to estimate finish times, to assess changes to your running form and to evaluate your fatigue resistance.
There are other criteria that will influence your choice of apps, but being able to obtain these metrics may be the most important.
𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆 𝑹𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓?
