# Anticipated load of races

**URL:** <https://forum.athletica.ai/t/anticipated-load-of-races/4484>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Tags:** race\
**Created:** [November 25, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.athletica.ai/t/anticipated-load-of-races/4484 "2025-11-25T13:46:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![joku](https://forum.athletica.ai/user_avatar/forum.athletica.ai/joku/32/3713_2.png) [@joku](https://forum.athletica.ai/u/joku)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.athletica.ai/t/anticipated-load-of-races/4484/1 "2025-11-25T13:46:17Z")

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Looking at my performance chart and enabling “load” I see that atheltica assumes/anticipates a load of 470 for all my races… independent of duration or whatever. That’s clearly too high!

I am not ruling out that I set this somewher myself, but in any case would like to “fix” it. I would have decent approximations of what I believe it will be for the various races – how can I enter them to the system?

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**Author:** ![cmaloney](https://forum.athletica.ai/user_avatar/forum.athletica.ai/cmaloney/32/395_2.png) [@cmaloney](https://forum.athletica.ai/u/cmaloney)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.athletica.ai/t/anticipated-load-of-races/4484/2 "2025-11-25T21:49:51Z")

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What kind of races are they? I looked back to the two Ironman’s I did in 2023 and the loads were: 693 and 772…and over 500 for some of my Half Ironman’s…..so maybe they are not too far off?

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**Author:** ![joku](https://forum.athletica.ai/user_avatar/forum.athletica.ai/joku/32/3713_2.png) [@joku](https://forum.athletica.ai/u/joku)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.athletica.ai/t/anticipated-load-of-races/4484/3 "2025-11-25T22:25:13Z")

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Mass start, very unequal intensity distributions, very different from an ironman/etc….

The first one is a local 60 km Gravel race (150 TSS?), the next ones are UCI gravel age-group qualifiers, 90–150 km. They are more on the 200…350 TSS scale…

I guess one should “simply” add an expected “Average intensity” or AP and with the already expected duration that gives a decent load estimate…