Whether it's elevation gain, temperature, humidity, or altitude, race day conditions can be unique, challenging, and variable. Unlike other race calculators, Stryd's Race Calculator considers external conditions to provide the most accurate race predictions.
For the Stryd Event Planner to be accurate, the Stryd system needs 30-90 days' worth of Stryd data and an accurate Critical Power. Both of these parameters can be easily achieved by adding a Stryd Training Plan to your Stryd Calendar. The Marathon, Half Marathon, 10k, and 5k Stryd Training Plans will give you both 30-90 days' worth of data and an accurate Critical Power.
Stryd's Event Planner is intended to help you set an achievable target power or target time and to see what the possible outcome might be as your race day approaches. Many factors affect this calculation, and certain criteria must be met to have an accurate estimate.
Event Planner
The Event Planner feature can be very helpful if you have any upcoming races or race-effort workouts.
The Stryd team has 12 popular verified race courses for a quick add. Or you can add a custom race distance.
The Event Priority will help you prioritize multiple races.
Other customization like Surface, Average Elevation, Temperature, and Humidity will help the Stryd system further customize your race plan.
If you have a very specific finishing time or race power, you can Edit the Target, or you can use the recommended race power.
Stryd’s ‘Race Calculator’ uses your previous 90 days running activity to recommend a ‘Target Power’ or ‘Target Time’ for both generic flat courses and real courses. Many factors go into Stryd’s calculation.
Event Creator: A, B, C Priority
When creating a new event via Stryd's mobile app, you must assign a 'Priority' to the event: A, B, or C. This is a feature that is tied to future development and will help determine how an event is associated with future training plans.
For now, giving events different priority levels will give them a different race card and help you quickly identify and differentiate upcoming races.
For future purposes:
'A' events are your primary event. This is the event you associate with a training cycle and usually comes at the end after a good taper period to achieve your best results.
'B' events are secondary events that help to gauge the effects of your training and your race readiness as your 'A' event approaches.
'C' events are your fun runs. These events take less priority and are typically not done at maximum effort and might be thrown in throughout your training cycle.
Deleting an Event
Events/races can only be deleted in the Stryd app on either iOS or Android with the following instructions.
Deleting an Event on iOS:
On the profile screen, find the event card you wish to delete.
Long-press (by pressing and holding on the card) on the event to get a prompt to delete it.
OR
Find your event in the calendar.
Long-press (by pressing and holding on the card) on the event to get a prompt to delete it.
Deleting and Event on Android:
On the profile screen, find the event card you wish to delete.
Long-press (by pressing and holding on the card) on the event to get a prompt to delete it.