Smart Coach + lack of power meter

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Right now the Profile has the following options:

    • Prescribe workout by pace (run) or power (bike)
    • Prescribe workout by heart rate (run) or power (bike)
    • Prescribe workout by heart rate
    • Let our Smart Coach choose the best option

This is a great feature, but if you don’t have a power meter there is no good option as Option 4 will recommend the work out being based on power.
Option 3 doesn’t work either because based on the type of run, it makes sense to track the workout by either pace or HR.

So today, if you don’t have a power meter, your only option with Option 4 is to manually re-sync each bike workout based on HR.

It would be great if there was a way to split this out by disciple or some other toggle if you don’t have a power meter!

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So to clarify, you would want an option that would say:
5 Prescribe Smart Coach method but I don’t have a power meter.
So here you would get

  1. HI runs with pace, LI runs with HR
  2. Bike workouts with HR
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That could work, but spittling out bike and run may also be easier for the user to understand.

Bike
Let our Smart Coach choose the best option
Prescribe workout by power
Prescribe workout by heart rate

Run
Let our Smart Coach choose the best option
Prescribe workout by pace
Prescribe workout by heart rate

You could also add Swim if needed. The “re-sync to Garmin” suggests both of these, but pace is likely the only option so not sure if there needs to be Swim.
Swim
Prescribe workout by pace
Let our Smart Coach choose the best option

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