Your TrainX Score is a single number between 1 and 100 that lets you know how you're doing with your Optimized Training™.
TrainX is our proprietary analytic algorithm that evaluates your “training execution” of your prescribed Optimized Training relative to its value and impact on your overall performance improvement. It scores individual training sessions, weekly training, and multi-week training periods.
The most effective training isn’t measured only by how much (or even how fast) training is done, but by comparing what training could and should be done (individually optimized training) to what training actually was done and how it was done.
TrainX helps you get more improvement from your training by helping you 1) do the right training and 2) do the right training right.
TrainX is quite different from your other Optimized Training metrics (such as Normalized Training Stress™, Residual Training Stress™, Normalized Training Load™, and Performance Readiness™). These other metrics are focused on the training itself and your response to it.
Regardless of what these other metrics are for a given training session or training period, TrainX evaluates only how well you executed whatever training was prescribed.
TrainX Scores measure your training execution for training that was uniquely prescribed for you.
The power of TrainX is realized through the cumulative effect of Optimized Training™ being consistently executed with a high level of intentionality to the best of your ability.
TrainX scoring starts with your optimized daily training sessions and expands to your weekly training and longer multi-week periods. Each of your sessions are specifically designed for you relative to your athletic profile, biometrics, genetics, performance ability, training history, environment, race goals, training preferences, and so forth. Your objective is to perform them to the best of your ability, realizing that training execution is something that will take practice and education to improve. Maximizing your training effectiveness is directly aligned with maximizing your TrainX Scores. Here’s a breakdown of the three types of TrainX Scores:
Your TrainX Session Scores evaluate multiple training execution factors related to individual session objectives, training intensities, intervals, and duration, among other things.
Your TrainX Weekly Scores evaluate your execution of prescribed training for the current and past weeks. It considers the TrainX Session Scores of completed sessions and many other factors related to session objectives, session quality, session priority, and discipline priority, among other things.
TrainX Multi-Week Scores evaluate all training weeks within multi-week periods. The most common periods evaluated are 4- and 8-week training blocks which generally cover one or two mesocycles, respectively.
TrainX Scores your training execution on a 1 to 100 scale. Our athletes commonly refer to a TrainX Session Score of a 100 as a unicorn, because it feels rare.
Keep in mind that a high TrainX Score is NOT the ultimate objective. The ultimate objective is your performance improvements that result from consistently executing the right training right, to the best of your ability. TrainX is a crucial tool to help you do this. Having a strong TrainX mindset is key.
TrainX Scores are designed to be used by athletes, not RunDot or TriDot's optimization engine. TrainX Scores themselves don’t directly affect your training optimization. However, the same training data that is used to produce your TrainX Scores is also used to optimize your training but at a much more granular level.
Aside from the expected reasons for poor scores such as training sessions that are executed substantially differently than how they were prescribed, there are several other causes for “poor” scores such as missing or corrupt data, changing training environment, injury, mechanical issues, and so forth. In any case, don’t worry about a poor TrainX Session Score. Learn from it, if possible, and adjust in the future.
No. Perform each session to the best of your ability. If you get a lower score than you’d like or expect, try to determine why and make adjustments to your training execution in the future.
Only sessions that are prescribed are scored. Athlete-created sessions in most cases will negatively impact recovery from prior sessions, hinder performance on future sessions, will be detrimental to overall training progress, and will unnecessarily increase injury risk. At this time, these sessions have no impact on TrainX Scores.