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Running with power
Add Critical Power, view watts beside pace, and deliberately choose power as the primary target for newly generated workouts.
Running power is optional, and adding it does not take pace guidance away.
Start with Critical Power — the highest running power you can hold in a metabolic steady state and the watt counterpart to threshold. Enter the number from your running power source, with where it came from. AgentRunCoach uses it to calculate the five current watt bands.
Seeing watts beside pace
Each Training Zone — one of the five shared intensity bands — can show a pace range and a watt range on the same row. Pace comes from your current running-fitness evaluation; watts come from Critical Power. Buying a power meter or changing its number does not silently recalculate your prescribed paces.
The two measurements can disagree on a particular day. Heat, hills, wind and fatigue can change the relationship between pace and power. That gap is context for coaching, not proof that one of the columns must be deleted.
Choosing which target leads
Pace is the default for every athlete. To make watts the primary instruction in newly generated structured workouts, explicitly set the Workout Target Preference — the saved choice between pace and power — to power. The choice is refused until running-power zones have been saved.
Adding power does not rewrite the active plan
Changing the preference affects workouts the plan generates next. Existing scheduled sessions keep the targets already built into them until you ask to rebuild the future plan or edit a session.
When power leads, the workout can still carry pace as the companion expression of the same effort. When pace leads and watt bands are available, watts can be shown alongside it. A runner without power data loses nothing: pace remains the prescription anchor.
Keeping measured watts when they are better
Your coach can pin a watt band for a named effort when a race, time trial or observed training provides better evidence than the general conversion. A marathon run at a measured power is stronger evidence for your marathon band than a theoretical cross-check.
The pinned band carries its source and note, applies anywhere that named effort is used, and leaves the pace half unchanged. Ask your coach to show that evidence when a watt target looks unfamiliar rather than treating the number as an unexplained setting.
Ask your coach
“Add my running Critical Power and show me the five watt bands.”
“Make power the primary target for my next plan.”
“Pin my marathon power from this race and keep the evidence with it.”
Related
- Reading your training zones — Use the five shared intensity bands for pace and running power, with threshold at the top of Z3 rather than treated as a zone of its own.
- Understanding your training paces — See how your current fitness becomes recovery, easy, race, threshold and faster workout targets, including any pace grounded in your own evidence.
- Managing your account — Find profile, connection, timezone and billing controls, and contact support for account access, export or permanent deletion requests.
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