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Article 07 · Your settings
Logging time trials.
A time trial is any race or hard test effort you’d trust as your current fitness — a 5K, 10K, parkrun, the last mile of a long run if you genuinely buried it. Log it in Settings → Training inputs → Performance baselines → Time trials.
Each entry takes a distance, a time, and a date. We compute a VDOT score from the result and store it. Your current VDOT is whichever single trial yields the highest score — so a sharp mile effort can override an older 5K if the equivalent fitness is higher.
Once saved, the new VDOT picks up on the next weekly rebuild — every Easy / Marathon / Threshold / Interval / Repetition pace target shifts to match. Trials are kept in history so you can see your progression over time.
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Personal records (and how pace + HR are derived)VDOT (from your latest 5K), max HR (220 − age, refined upward from synced data), and 1RMs (squat, deadlift, bench) seed every prescribed pace, zone, and starting strength load.Quick recalibrateA one-tap path to nudge VDOT up or down when easy paces feel wrong, without rewriting this week’s plan. Lives in Settings → Training inputs → Program shape → Quick recalibrate.What the AI reads when building next weekEvery input below feeds into next week’s rebuild. Logs, RPE, feedback chips, notes, synced activities, off-program activities, and every Settings input.