Updated PMC: Past, Present and Future

TrainingPeaks Project Manager Matt Allen breaks down the question that arose with the introduction of future PMC this spring, and explains how our latest release resolves the issue for our users. For the full blog, please click here. 

Since introducing Planned TSS and future modeling into the PMC, we have tried treating Today as a past date (just as we always have), and we have tried treating Today as a future date (just for the last few weeks). Both scenarios had their own host of complications and usability issues, which we heard about from our users. As always, we listened to all the great feedback, and as a result took the treatment of "Today" back to the drawing board. We've now released an even better way to implement a solution for treating Today as the present, while honoring both Planned and Actual TSS on today.

"Today" is now handled in the following ways for each of the three profiles of PMC users. The scenarios below behave the same for both an athlete looking at their own PMC, as well as a coach looking at an athlete’s PMC:

1) Athletes that log a single or multiple workouts per day and do not have any values entered for Planned TSS: 

• With no Planned TSS for a workout, TSS on Today is zero until the workout is logged. Once the workout is logged, Actual TSS instantly updates CTL/ATL on PMC.
• If multiple workouts are logged on Today, the Actual TSS is combined from all the workouts to create the TSS per day value that is used for calculating CTL/ATL.

 2) Athletes that have a single workout planned per day, and have a value for Planned TSS entered on that workout: 

• CTL/ATL will be based on Planned TSS for Today until there is Actual TSS for that workout. Once Actual TSS is logged for the workout, CTL/ATL on Today will be based on the Actual TSS.

3) Athletes that have multiple workouts planned per day and have Planned TSS values entered for those workouts:

• CTL/ATL for Today will be based on combining Planned TSS for non-completed workouts and Actual TSS for completed workouts.