We applied a similar sports-science philosophy behind your cycling performance to running. Now you can understand your athletic ability across both sports and track your fitness no matter what you’re training.
What’s new:
1. 3DP Running Athlete Profile: Understand your running abilities across three performance dimensions, just like your cycling profile.
2. Running Dimensional Training Load (DTL): After every run, see a precise breakdown of the training stimulus you generated.
3. Running DTL Breakdown: Separate your cycling and running loads to understand what you’ve actually been training.
4. Combined Training Trends: One unified view of your fitness trajectory across both cycling and running. Whether you’re doing intervals on the bike or the track, you’ll see how each session builds your overall capacity.
How to get started:
Tap your profile in the top-left corner of the app
Navigate to Running Athlete Profile and complete the setup quiz
Go for a run — your Running DTL will appear automatically after each workout
Use your DTL numbers to dial in Fitness, Training Capacity, and Training Trends across both sports
Are there any plans for new training programs that better integrate cycling and running? I know there are multisport programs, but I don’t do duathlons or triathlons, so I don’t run and cycle right after each other. That’s something that’s currently missing.
This is a really interesting addition. The move away from a single training-load number toward a multidimensional athlete profile makes a lot of sense, especially for runners who can have very different strengths despite similar race times.
What caught my attention is the breakdown between Threshold Pace, MAP, and Anaerobic Capacity. A lot of runners end up plateauing because they focus heavily on mileage and pace while overlooking which specific system is actually limiting performance. The idea of seeing how each workout contributes to those different dimensions could make training decisions much more targeted.
I’m curious to hear from people who have already tried it:
Did the profile match your perception of your strengths and weaknesses?
Have you changed your training based on the analytics yet?
How does it compare with metrics from Garmin, COROS, Strava, or other platforms you’re using?
Looking forward to seeing some real-world feedback after a few weeks of use.
This is exactly me. I’ve been using this and trying to do more AC/MAP work but it’s still early to see if it helps.
I am positive though because I was exactly the same way with cycling - tons of base, minimal intensity - and focusing on MAP over the last year has really made me faster on climbs, more than what shows in FTP gains.
Can it work from the details of a run captured using watchOS? or do you need to use the app directly to track the run? And… if the app directly - can I use this on an Apple Watch?
It’s not picking up any historical activities, nor walks or “other” since I’ve added the permissions this morning (unf after a run). It has permission to access health (which captures the apple watch activity) and strava ; it is picking up activities recorded directly in wahoo ecosystem. Any clue bats for what I need to check? Will it pick up historical run activity from health?
OK update - it did pick up the walk but I had to manually trigger a sync, and I uploaded a fit for the run. Let me know if there should be a historical back fill happening though and if so how to kick it off. No stress if not.
Where do we give feedback/bug reports?
I was working through the 3DP setup, and have a few issues
The largest one is I can’t manually set times (literally → under 5k, I write 23 as I assume it wants in minutes and seconds? but I don’t have the ability to use a colon, and 23 is redflagged, won’t let me continue, as “value is too low” 23 minutes is not a fast 5k time.
Also? why is max distance run in a day limited to 97km? I might be slow, 800 people beat me, but my last 100k was well under 24 hours, so should be counted as my longest run.
So - I can’t complete the exercise. Android phone app)
Also I think that question in the questionnaire is trying to weed out people with no long distance (I.e., just do a 5 mile loop and never go longer or something). I bet it treats everything over a marathon the same - that increase in distance probably isn’t going to change your threshold pace, right?
found out the ‘just keep punching numbers in’ bit after I posted
not the best user experience (should be a ghost colon in the box, would work better)
As for 'does longer distances change FTP →
No, but it suggests that your speed over longer events may taper off more slowly than if if have only done short events.
I guess to put my other point differently: I bet the analysis they’re doing via the questionnaire isn’t detailed enough to worry about that level of nuance:
When you make updates it just prompts you to enter your 5k/10K/HM/FM test times, suggesting it’s just trying to estimate these
Anyone who has times over 42K is clearly already a well trained runner and the odds of you having good test times is pretty good - they don’t have to make stuff up for you, you probably already have numbers.
