A lot has shipped recently. Here’s what actually matters for your training:
Workout Wizard is now live for everyone After beta testing, Workout Wizard (AWW) is fully released. It suggests smart alternatives to any plan-generated session — go easy, cross-train, shorten it, or just mix things up. Swipe through options on mobile, pick what fits your day. Sessions you manually create won’t have alternatives (by design), but everything your plan generates does.
Your training zones now stick If you’ve ever manually set a power, HR, or pace threshold only to have it silently overridden — that’s fixed. Manual saves are now protected, and if the system is briefly unavailable when you save, your change is queued and applied automatically.
Swimming gets more analytics Efficiency factor (EF) and aerobic decoupling are now calculated for swim sessions with HR and speed data — the same metrics you’ve had for cycling, running, and rowing. Applies to new sessions going forward.
Race week sessions no longer go missing The system now automatically detects and fills any sessions that were skipped during race week generation. Your taper calendar should look exactly as it should.
Calendar reliability Weekly totals, session durations, and calendar refreshes are all more accurate and update immediately after changes — no more stale numbers after edits.
As always, flag anything unexpected. The team ships fixes fast.
What exactly does that mean, how do I revert back to “auto-adjustment” if I once chagned them manually? Is it only getting fixed when while defining it through the “Plan Builder” and/or if changed in “Profiles & Zones / Training Zones”?
Change them manually in Profiles & Zones, Training Zones. They should stick. Then leave your setting on ‘ask me’ to avoid override and be alerted if a zone change is suggested. Then you make the call. The principle of automation in this space is GIGO (garbage in = garbage out). We need human supervision to avoid surprises. Sometimes our devices send data that aren’t valid.
Actually, I canceled my subscription because Athletica’s pace analysis is inaccurate, so the coach’s advice isn’t good, and therefore the program can’t be good.
I just tried it with a free trial account, and the pace zones are still wrong— that’s what I explained in my post, if you’d read it.
Clicking workout wizard in the app just brings up a blank panel.
In the browser, once I have selected an alternate session via workout wizard. The workout wizard button no longer appears and I cannot change my mind or go back to the original session.
For now I have just changed a recovery ride to a recovery walk for tomorrow (13th April).
By the way, I’ve never gotten a clear answer on this issue: does an inaccurate speed analysis result in an inaccurate speed curve and, consequently, inaccurate training recommendations?
You know the saying, GIGO (garbage in, garbage out), so yes if your pace analysis is wrong then yes the output will be wrong - considering the timing of when you tested and what I think aligned with some platform updates, I’d suggest deleting the inaccurate session(s) and doing a new test week, or updating your data with what you know to be correct. The platform does let you override the AI as a backup and will learn from there.
and will learn from there.