Performance curve and best efforts

Before you start

• You need sessions recorded with power or pace. Heart rate alone gives a curve for a single session only.
• Your curve over time is on the web, on the Training Zones page. Each session’s own best efforts show on the web and in the iPhone app.

See your curve over time (web)

1. Open Training Zones from the menu.
2. Choose a sport: Global combines all your sports. Running, Biking and Swimming can be selected once you turn on Per-sport zones.
3. Choose Power or Pace. The curve sits next to your threshold, so you can check the number against your own efforts.

Each point is your best average for that duration over the last 90 days. Marked points show your bests at 5 seconds and 1, 5, 20 and 60 minutes. The 90 days count back from your latest session with data, so a break in training does not empty your curve.

See one session’s best efforts

Web

1. Open the session.
2. Scroll to Power Curve, Pace Curve or Heart Rate Curve.
3. Compare This activity with Your best before this: your best for the same sport from earlier sessions. Select a point on Your best before this to open the session that set it.

iPhone

1. Open the workout and tap one of its charts.
2. Scroll to the Best effort charts for power, pace and heart rate. Power shows for sports like cycling; pace shows for running and swimming.

Set your paddling Critical Power (web)

Kayaking, canoeing, stand-up paddleboarding and other paddle sports use their own Critical Power (CP) and power zones, separate from your cycling numbers. Rowing does not use your paddling CP.

1. Open Training Zones and choose Paddling. Paddling has power zones only, so a power meter on your paddle or boat is what makes them useful.
2. Enter your value in Power (shown as CP (paddling)).
3. Select Calculate from CP to set your paddling power zones.
4. Select Save Changes.

Until you set it, Beoflow uses provisional paddling zones based on your cycling zones, and the page tells you so.

What you’ll see

• Power in watts (W). Running pace per km; swimming pace per 100 m on the Training Zones page.
• Under the curve: how many sessions it comes from, and the date range.
• “From a single activity on …”: one session supplied the whole curve. Read it as one effort, not a season of bests.
• On Paddling, no curve is drawn: a curve pooled across sports would show your strongest sport, not your paddling.

Troubleshooting

• “Not enough activities in this window to build a curve.” Record more sessions with power or pace.
• “No power data in this window.” Your sessions may not have power. If the page says your pace curve has data, switch to Pace.
• Biking shows no curve: choose Global to see your curve for now. We’re fixing the Biking view.
• No running or swimming tab to select: turn on Per-sport zones first.
• “No earlier activity to compare against yet.” There is no earlier session of the same sport with that data.

Privacy

The curve uses the power, pace and heart rate from your own recorded sessions. You can see it, and so can a coach you share your data with.

Related

• Training zones
• Field test