Adding Manual Activities

Adding manual activities to your activity history is easy! In this post, we will show you how to add manual activities to your account. This can be helpful in situations where your power meter died or for rides on bikes without power meters.

To start, navigate to the Fitness Planner and click the ‘+’ icon on the day when you performed the activity:

This will bring up the options to Add an Activity. If the activity was similar to an activity or workout that you’ve done in the past, select the ‘Add a Ride‘ or ‘Add a Workout‘ option, respectively – more on this below. You can also add other (non-cycling) activities by selecting the ‘Add Other Activity‘ option.

If you selected ‘Add a Ride’ you can either select a previous activity – this will auto-fill the activity distance, duration, XSS, Focus, etc. for you. To manually key in those values, select the ‘Entry Mode‘ toggle.

Start by editing the date & time of the activity at the top of the panel. Also be sure enter in the duration, XSS, Focus and Specificity Rating.  For guidelines on how these should be entered:

  1. Duration is simply the length of the activity…nothing special to note.
  2. XSS is how much XSS you accumulated. In general, you’ll accumulate 40-50XSS per hour for easy riding, about 60-70XSS per hour for endurance riding, and 90-110XSS per hour for extreme, high-intensity riding.
  3. For Focus, if was low intensity, use Endurance focus type.  If you had some longer efforts just above Threshold Power, choose Climber or GC Specialist.  If you had been doing sprinting or shorter/hard efforts, choose Road Sprinter to Rouleur.
  4. For Specificity Rating, it should normally be set to Mixed.

Note: Getting these values 100% correct isn’t absolutely necessary, especially if the activities are infrequent and make up a smaller proportion of your training.  The more these activities will contribute to your overall training, the more important it is to have good estimates.

Using Other Activities or Workouts

Sometimes it’s easy just to use an older activity or even a workout that you feel represents what you had done during your activity where you didn’t record power data.  To start, keep rides that you do often as ‘Favourites’ – these could be commutes, weekly group rides, etc. When adding an activity to the planner, use the ‘Add a Ride’ option and enable the ‘Favourites only‘ toggle. From there, you can scroll through and select the activity that you’d like to use for the activity.