𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦
It’s a system built on your individual capabilities.
And it has five fundamental concepts that work together to enable you to run your personal best.
Power represents your effort, so you can see how hard you’re working while running and how that changes as you run (whether you decide to make the change, or hills or wind force you to change your effort).
Threshold is a small range of effort levels, below which you can run at a steady effort, and above which you fatigue much more quickly and will need to slow down or stop.
Threshold Power is used to set training targets, to monitor training load, and to set race/event goals.
These are inversely related (higher power = shorter duration; lower power = longer duration).
Best effort and maximum effort runs can determine how long you can sustain differing effort levels, giving you a view of your current capability over a range of intensities.
Stress Scores combine ‘how hard?’ and ‘how long?’ and represent each workout’s metabolic stress – its impact on your body.
You can combine the scores to calculate metrics you can use to monitor whether your training is productive (not too much, not too little), and to manage injury risk.
A speed:power ratio that you can use to estimate finish times, to assess changes to your running form and to evaluate your fatigue resistance.
𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆 𝑹𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓?
