𝐑𝐚𝐜𝐞-𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠
Stress Balance, based on your stress 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 stress 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 – training for a marathon may have a different mix of intensities than training for a 5k.
𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐓𝐈𝐃)
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 don’t 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 you’re planning to run, using planned stress scores).
The TID chart is the third key metric for monitoring your training (along with Stress Balance and Ramp Rate).
𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆 𝑹𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓?
