Reviewing race trends

Race trends turn separate finishes into a progression you can discuss with your coach.

Each point comes from a recorded race result and includes the official time, pace and a race-derived Run Fitness value — a distance-adjusted expression of the performance. Depending on your assistant, the same information may appear as a chart or as a written summary.

Comparing the same distance

Filter to one distance when you want a direct finish-time or pace comparison. The trend can then describe the change from the first result to the latest and identify the strongest race in the filtered set.

Ordinary workouts do not appear in this chart. A run has to be saved as a race result before it becomes a trend point, even when the activity already exists in your training history.

Comparing different distances

A 5K time and a marathon time should not be called faster or slower by looking at finish time alone. When several distances are mixed, the trend leaves out a first-to-latest time improvement and uses the race-derived fitness values for the cross-distance view instead.

Those values make unlike distances more comparable, not identical. They do not erase the effect of course, altitude, weather, pacing or race preparation.

Narrowing the history

Your coach can filter trends by date range, distance, tag, course or location. That lets you compare all racing, one event, races at altitude or another group you have labeled consistently.

Start with the narrowest question that matches what you want to learn. “How have my 10Ks changed?” and “Which performance across all distances was strongest?” are both useful, but they are different comparisons and should not be answered with the same number.