Race Recon: your race course, read into your training
Attach a GPX or FIT course to any race, or import a recorded Intervals.icu route, and IntervalCoach reads its elevation, climbs and terrain. The race page shows your preparation priorities based on your recent performance, and workouts that suit the course get a small preference within your current phase. You can also turn on surface analysis to see paved, gravel and unpaved sections. Wind forecasts mark the headwind, tailwind and crosswind stretches, with wind shown in Beaufort and a labelled arrow on the route map. Pace plans for A and B races now give you a target normalized power or pace, an hour-by-hour plan and a ceiling for the first hour, and they account for how your own long sessions usually fade. Every race also gets a fuelling plan sized to its real length. You can share a race and its course with your club, and members can get an email or push notification. Read the full story on the blog.
Find races near you
The events page can now search around a town or your location, with a radius from 25 to 250 km. It shows how far away each race starts. You can filter with one tap by distance (10K, half marathon, marathon, or distance bands for cycling, trail and triathlon), by date, by course profile, and by one-day or multi-day events, and you can leave out pro races. A marathon that also has a half now appears when you search for a half marathon.
Records, story cards and a fuller activity page
Personal records are rolling out to everyone on Pro and Max. When a ride or run beats your best power for a duration or your fastest time over a distance, the analysis email says so. It also includes a story card you can share straight to Instagram, and season bests count as well. Races get their own story card, with your route drawn faintly behind the numbers and the first and last kilometre left out for privacy. On the activity page, outdoor sessions now show a route profile with every climb and your time, power, heart rate and VAM on it. Runs and walks get per-kilometre or per-mile splits. A new time-in-zone view compares the time you spent in each zone with the time the session asked for, and it works for power, pace and heart rate.
Readiness, recovery and wearables
Your readiness score has been recalibrated so it sits closer to what Whoop, Oura and similar devices show for the same night. A normal morning now reads about 70 instead of 80, and green still starts at 67. Sleep now uses your device's sleep score when it provides one, and HRV, resting heart rate and sleep are measured against your 30-day baseline. Whoop can now also share the workouts it records on its own. If you connected Whoop earlier, use the Reconnect button in Settings. The new recovery mode, under Settings → Coach, pauses your plan and training emails for a period when you are recovering rather than training. Turning it off restores your previous settings.
Smarter planning
When your power profile shows a clear weak spot, the coach now offers to make it a focus for the block. A new beta setting spots a weeks-long dip, where your power keeps falling while your HRV or resting heart rate stays off, and holds your load easy until that turns around. Fitness tests are now scheduled for athletes at a much lower fitness level, so if you train a few hours a week, expect a ramp, time trial or CSS test. New athletes whose history hasn't synced yet get a heart-rate-based starter week. Hard days are spaced properly around sessions already on your calendar, including in non-English languages. Switching to heart rate, pace or power now converts your upcoming sessions too. Coaching instructions can set a minimum cadence, and races more than four weeks out are taken into account while your plan is written.
Coach+ and the iOS & Mac apps
Coach+ can now change or delete the exact race you mean, including C races. It can rewrite your coaching instructions once you agree on a new version, and it sees when you've marked yourself sick. If you set it to talk changes through first, it waits cleanly for your yes. A day you clear stays clear. On iPhone, new controls for Control Center, the Lock Screen and the Action Button start your check-in, open Train Now or show today's readiness. Siri now answers in your language, and on iOS 27 you can ask Siri for a workout and it lands on today's calendar. Long-press Today's Plan to move or delete a session. On Mac, rides and planned sessions open on a fuller two-column page, and runs and walks show splits. On both, the Daily Outlook updates when your plan changes during the day.
On the blog
This week we published Race Recon: your race course, read into your training and Your sessions are now pitched to your own level, one energy system at a time. We also added three guides to how AI coaching works: for endurance athletes, for runners and for triathletes.
Full changelog with all the details: https://www.intervalcoach.app/changelog
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