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Graphical Interval Designer
This screen shot shows some of the basic shapes whose characteristics you can adjust either by "rubber-banding" with mouse "pick-and-drag", or by modifying the control boxes. The upper portion of the view shows how the entire scale of the workout is shown, regardless of zoom level selected in the main display.

Random Shapes
This screen shot shows use of the Random shape, whose characteristics (max and min switching time, max and min power, and total duration) you can adjust either by "rubber-banding" with a mouse-pick-and-drag, or precisely by modifying the control boxes. Rather than selecting a single, constant power level, this takes some of the boredom out of riding for a long time in a particular "zone".


Combine workout files
This screen shot shows combining workout files into a single new workout. In this case, the warm-up was stored as a file, as was the first part of the "workload section", a series of "hat" intervals, as was the second part, a series of "wedge" intervals, followed by a cool down. The three files were appended to form the single workout file shown below. Once combined as shown, all of the details within the new workout can be modified without affecting the original contents of the component files.


Analyze and Convert Outdoor Rides
The prior examples illustrated the manual creation of workouts. Here, ERG+ automatically imports and identifies features within a power workout, and groups them into interval sequences or time-segmented sequences.

The fitting can be easily tuned (with sliders) to provide a good balance between accuracy of fit, noise tolerance, and the number of shapes you desire to map to your performance. You can also remove features that are detected, but you don't care to repeat. These shapes can be easily edited to suit your desired ergometer-replica ride. Perhaps you want to know if you could have survived if you'd gone harder?


Automatic Interval Detection

This shows how Hats are automatically fitted to the same workout, and the interval statistics (the ones you and your coach REALLY want to know), are computed. This diagram shows how Wedges are automatically fitted to the same workout, and interval statistics, are computed. Learn more about this incredibly powerful and useful feature here

Fit real rides to hats and wedges
You may have rides where the performance was not done in intervals, such as a time trial. You can still fit these workouts to hats and wedges, to discern breaks in your efforts, and even very long-term trends in your performance. You can also fit the performance to simple line segments for your ergometer workout. The screenshot below shows a time trial performance, mapped to simple lines.

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