
๐๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐?
Your PDC is modelled using your best efforts from your recent workouts – usually, the last 90 days of workouts.
Its accuracy (and its usefulness) depends on whether those best efforts include some maximum effort runs for a range of different durations.
๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ?
Best efforts are those efforts with the highest average power for each duration on your PDC.
They need not be the best you could have achieved, just the best that you actually ran during the last 90 days.
๐๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ?
Maximum efforts are efforts where you deliberately run as hard as you can for each duration.
They represent the best you can currently achieve.
๐ ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ?
Your PDC reflects your capability over very short durations (20-30 seconds), short durations (2-3 minutes), medium durations (12-15 minutes) and longer durations (20-40 minutes).
๐๐จ ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒโฆ
Your PDC needs to be ‘fresh’:
โก A PDC that may have been ‘accurate’ 60 days ago is not necessarily ‘accurate’ today
โก A PDC that includes best efforts rather than maximum efforts may not represent the best you can actually achieve
To ensure your PDC is ‘fresh’:
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your training should include maximum effort runs for each of the above durations, so that your last 90 days of workouts includes a maximum effort for each duration
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you should run maximum efforts every 4-6 weeks, alternating between durations, so that your Threshold Power (and your PDC) reflects your current capability.
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐’๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐?
โ Questions?
๐ Getting Started
๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐: ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ซ-๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐
โฉ What are you capable of?
โฉ You fatigue faster at higher intensities
โฉ You fatigue more slowly at lower intensities
โฉ How do I use my PDC?
โฉ Is my PDC accurate?








