Athlete FAQ

If your coach only tracks your payments — no: reminders and the "I have paid" button work via email. Registration unlocks your personal account: a calendar with your training plan, watch sync, workout ratings, analytics, the feed and the coach directory. The form is at athlete-register.php.

Register with the same email address the payment emails arrive at. Your account is linked to your card in the coach's base automatically by email match — nothing else to connect. If you have cards with several coaches under that email, all of them get linked.

Auto-linking only works when the emails match. Ask your coach to put the email you registered with into your card and send the invitation again — or find your coach in the "Coaches" directory and send a request: once the coach accepts it, the link appears.

The link opens a registration form with your name and email already filled in — you only choose a password. After registration your account is immediately linked to your card with that coach. This is the most reliable way to "end up with your coach" without email mix-ups.

Yes — both for registration and sign-in. With Google/Yandex no separate password is needed and your email is confirmed automatically. Your sign-in method is shown in your profile.

Check your spam folder. You can resend the email from the confirmation page (at most once every 2 minutes); the link in the email is valid for 24 hours. You cannot sign in until your email is confirmed.

Yes. At registration, every card with your email is linked. You can add a new coach at any time through the directory — existing links are not affected. Each coach only sees their own work with you; data is never shared between coaches.

Your email is your account login and can't be changed from the profile. Write to admin@pacetrack.ru — we'll help move your account to a new address.

Yes, fully: your own calendar, AI-built macro plan and weekly plan, analytics, gear, the feed. You can pick a coach later in the directory — with your first request your record is transferred to the chosen coach, and your plan and history are preserved.

Yes. Your profile has a "Coach cabinet" block — the "Enable coach cabinet" button creates a coach account with the same email and password (or Google/Yandex sign-in). The athlete cabinet stays, and the profile menu gets an "As coach" / "As athlete" switcher; at sign-in the platform opens the mode you used last. If you no longer need the coach cabinet, it can be deleted separately — your athlete cabinet, workouts and integrations are preserved.

Workouts: Garmin Connect, Polar Flow, Strava, Wahoo, Suunto, COROS. Recovery and sleep metrics (no workouts): WHOOP. Plus manual .fit file upload. Everything is connected on the "Apps" page; PaceTrack never sees your passwords for these services — you sign in on their side, except COROS (see the next question).

The "native" service of your watch: Garmin → Garmin Connect, Polar → Polar Flow, Wahoo → Wahoo, Suunto → Suunto, COROS → COROS. That way you get the most complete data (heart rate, laps, power).

Only for the moment of authorization — Strava and Wahoo block sign-in from some Russian IP addresses. Turn on a VPN, sign in, and you can switch it off right away: ongoing workout sync works as usual without it.

COROS has no separate sign-in page — you enter your COROS email and password directly on the connect card in PaceTrack, and they're stored encrypted so the system can sync workouts in the background. One COROS account can only be connected to one PaceTrack account.

Garmin and Polar sync automatically roughly every 15 minutes; COROS, Wahoo and Suunto sync via a background check. Each service page has a "Sync" button for an immediate check, and re-syncing doesn't create duplicates. History: Polar only provides the last 30 days, Strava the last 14 days on first connection; move older workouts over as .fit files.

Export a .fit file from your watch's service and upload it on the "Apps" page (several at once is fine; duplicates are flagged automatically). Without any file — create a plan in the calendar and enter the actual distance and time via "⭐ Rate workout": they'll count towards weekly totals and analytics.

Yes — by manually uploading .fit files: export them from Garmin Connect / Polar Flow and drag them into the upload area. Manual upload has no age limit.

Wellness metrics: recovery (readiness), sleep and daily strain — from WHOOP, Garmin or Polar. They appear in calendar cells and on the "Recovery" tab in analytics. With two or more sources connected, a switcher appears to choose which source to display.

No, deletion is irreversible. If the workout was synced from Garmin or Polar, export its .fit file from that service and upload it manually — it will reappear.

Workouts and payments are visible only to you and your coach/club; workouts become public only if you make them public. Account deletion is in your profile: a confirmation link arrives by email (valid 24 hours); after confirmation your workouts, plans and service connections are removed irreversibly.

First enable your public profile in the profile: set a username and switch on "Profile open". Then either "Workouts public by default" (every new workout goes straight to the feed) or make individual workouts public manually. The feed lives at /athlete/feed.php.

Visibility is switched off on the workout page itself. Additionally, in the profile: "Trim GPS near start/finish" hides the beginning and end of the route (so your home isn't shown), "Follow requests require approval" makes follows opt-in, and "Public statistics" controls whether your career totals are visible.

Yes, if you want to — two separate toggles in your profile: "Show coach's assignment in the public feed" (the coach's assignment text) and "Show athlete report in the public feed" (your RPE, wellness, and written report). Both are off by default; once enabled, the matching blocks appear collapsed under the workout in the feed — expand them by clicking.

A respect (🤍) is the like on a workout in the feed; you get notified about respects. Follows let you see other athletes' public workouts in the "Following" tab; you can follow from search or from a public profile at pacetrack.ru/athletes/<name>.

The "Search" section, "Nearby" tab: pick one of your GPS workouts — the system finds athletes whose tracks crossed yours in time and place. Works only for GPS workouts and only among open profiles.

The "Share" block on the workout page creates a public link pacetrack.ru/s/… — three levels of detail (numbers only / with route map / full with splits), a "Hide my name" option and a "Download PNG" button. Careful: the map levels show start and finish points without trimming.

Honest answer: the PaceTrack feed doesn't replace Strava — it complements the training process, keeping plan, fact, ratings and the social side in one place. Unique here: "Nearby" search by track intersection and the link to your training plan.

Clubs are listed in the "Coaches" directory as a separate section — send a request just as you would to an individual coach. Once accepted, you become a club athlete: any of its coaches can work with you.

The "Analytics" section has four tabs — "Load & risk" (volumes, sRPE, ACWR, the PMC fitness chart, Monotony & Strain), "Fitness & efficiency" (EF, best segments, records, Riegel race prediction, decoupling), "Plan & execution", and "Recovery" (with WHOOP/Garmin/Polar connected). Periods of 4/12/26 weeks, per sport.

The "Training zones" page: heart-rate and pace zones for running (Z1–Z5), separate cycling HR and power zones (as % of FTP) plus FTP itself. Set them manually, calculate from reference values (max HR, LTHR, threshold pace) or import from Garmin Connect. Zones are used in structured workouts and load calculations.

Open "⭐ Rate workout" again: clicking the selected RPE or feeling again clears the choice, the km/time fields can be emptied — then save. Only the athlete can change or delete a rating; the coach cannot.

Your RPE ratings (0–10) fuel the analytics: sRPE, ACWR and the "Fitness & load" chart (CTL/ATL/TSB) are computed from them. Without ratings those charts stay empty even when the kilometres are recorded. Plus your coach sees your feeling and report — that's their feedback loop.

Recovery and sleep appear in the calendar in the morning after your night's sleep cycle. The "Recovery" tab in analytics shows HRV and resting heart rate against a baseline: a deviation of more than 10% is highlighted as an early fatigue signal — earlier than you'd notice it in pace or feel.

Watch multi-week trends, not single numbers. Runners: EF (pace ÷ HR — rises as aerobic fitness improves), threshold pace, best segments and the Riegel prediction. Cyclists: with FTP set — power-based TSS and normalized power. In general: CTL on the PMC chart grows when you train consistently.

Yes. For cycling workouts with a power meter and FTP set — exact power-based TSS; without power — hrTSS from heart-rate zones and Banister TRIMP (requires HR data, LTHR and sex in the profile). Weekly totals and trends are in analytics.

The "Macro plan" button in the calendar header (available to self-coached athletes): choose the sport, race date and format, target time — the AI builds a week-by-week plan with phases, volumes and focus points. The plan can be edited, rebuilt and archived. Important: an AI plan is a recommendation, not a prescription; increase load gradually, and for long distances consider having a professional coach review the plan.

The macro plan is the "season map": preparation phases and target volumes for every week up to the race. The weekly plan is concrete workouts by day. They're linked: the "Week plan" page shows a "From the macro plan for this week" block with targets and a comparison against what you've actually entered.

Yes, everything is editable: macro plan weeks, any workouts. AI rebuilds take your free-form comments into account ("was sick for a week", "add more long runs"). Review the result before accepting — the AI speeds up the work but isn't responsible for it.

The "Week plan" page from the calendar: 7 day cards. You can drop a plan file (.txt/.md) — the AI splits it across days; paste the assignment text; recalculate distance/time from the description; run the AI "Plan check". With an active macro plan, the AI assistant works in two steps: week structure, then the full plan.

Running and cycling plans have a structure builder: steps with HR/pace zone targets; for cycling — power (W, % FTP or zone) and cadence; repeat blocks; step comments (shown on the watch screen). "Save and send to Garmin" puts the workout into your Garmin calendar; cycling workouts can also be sent to Wahoo (ELEMNT).

Yes. The macro plan switches by tabs: running (5K — marathon), cycling (gran fondo, group race, time trial, stage race or peak fitness; volume in hours, optional FTP and TSS) and triathlon (sprint / Olympic / half / full distance — one plan covering swim, bike and run; creating it archives your active running and cycling plans).

The template library is a coach tool. In your own calendar, use copying for repeat workouts: drag with Shift to create a copy, or "Copy to clipboard" to move a workout or a whole day to any date.

Don't try to "catch up" on what you missed — that's the classic road to overload. Move workouts by drag-and-drop, and with an active macro plan rebuild it via AI with a comment ("missed a week due to illness") — the plan will recalculate volumes from your current state. Return to load gradually and listen to how you feel.

The "AI Assistant" (/ai-chat.php) is a separate free-form chat: ask it about your calendar, zones, macro plan, or recovery, and it pulls up the relevant data and answers. It doesn't replace AI-building or rebuilding your macro plan and weekly plan — those remain dedicated tools on their own pages; the AI Assistant can tell you about them, but edits to the plan go through those tools, done by your coach (or by you, for your own plan, if you train on your own).

Every reply spends units (UE) from your account balance — 1 UE = 1 ₽, and you get a free 100 UE welcome grant the first time you open the balance page. Top up on the "Account Balance" page via YooMoney; without a balance, sending new messages is blocked. Ready-made training plans from the shop are also paid for with UE, if you choose to buy one.

The "Gear" section ("More…" menu or the profile menu): add shoes, spikes, a bike, an indoor trainer bike, a wetsuit — or create your own gear type. Each item has a starting mileage and replacement/service thresholds.

Yes — the "From Garmin" button in the section header: tick the items you want and import. It's a one-time copy; already imported items are flagged and skipped.

Automatically from actual workouts: the GPS track distance, or your rating's distance if there's no track. Set a "default" item per sport — it's assigned to new workouts automatically; you can change the pair on any workout page.

Enter the starting mileage when creating (or editing) the item — it's added to the kilometres accumulated in PaceTrack.

Yes, for running: on the workout page the distance can be split into segments between several pairs — each pair is credited proportionally.

Yes: the ⋮ menu on a plan card in the calendar has a "Gear" item — set what you'll wear. This doesn't count as editing the plan (your coach won't see the 👤 icon).

When the threshold you set for the item is reached (replacement and service thresholds are separate). Notifications arrive in the notification feed; channels (push, Telegram) are configured in the profile.

Each item has a service log: record completed service (e.g. a chain replacement) — the "since last service" mileage resets and counts again towards the next threshold.

Retire the item — it disappears from active selection, but its mileage and history are preserved. You can bring it back at any time.

Your calendar, actual workouts, ratings (RPE, feeling, reports), wellness metrics, zones, gear (view only) and your payment history with them. Each coach sees only their own link with you — data isn't shared between coaches. Access appears only after a confirmed link or after the coach accepts your request.

By default — yes: edit, move, copy and delete any plans in your calendar. The coach can lock edits — a single workout, a week or the whole plan (🔒 icon). Watch sync and workout rating keep working under a lock; the coach sees a 👤 icon on workouts you've changed.

Money goes to the coach directly (bank transfer, card — whatever you agree on), outside PaceTrack: the platform doesn't process payments and takes no fees. When a reminder arrives — pay using the details in the email and press "I have paid" (in the email or in your account); the coach confirms receipt. Payment history is on the dashboard.

Chat: rich text and photos, voice messages with automatic transcription, reactions, quotes, pinned messages. For online workout reviews there are built-in video calls — no third-party services. If you speak different languages, enable auto-translation in the profile.

When rating a running workout, the system asks short questions (where you ran, how many reps you completed, etc.) and turns your answers into a report draft — faster than writing from scratch. Answering is optional; disable them in the profile ("Ask follow-up questions…") or ask your coach to disable them just for you.

Yes — once you leave your own rating, your coach can give their own score (0–10) with a comment on that same workout's page. You'll see it there too, read-only — only the coach can change it. When the coach rates or updates their rating, you get a notification in the feed on the site, by email, push, or Telegram — channels are configured in notification settings (all on by default).

If the workout is linked to a plan with a text assignment, the "Generate analysis" button runs an AI comparison of the assignment against what you actually did, showing an "Assignment match" score (0–10) with a short breakdown. It's a reference tool — unrelated to and doesn't replace the coach's rating.

When you work with a coach, the macro plan is visible only if the coach has enabled access for you — and then in view-only mode. If you train on your own, the macro plan is fully available: create, edit, rebuild.

In your profile, "My coaches" section — the unlink button next to a confirmed link. Your workouts, plans and history stay with you; the coach loses access to your calendar.

A morning summary of today's workouts (hour is configurable, 08:00 by default), a message when the weekly plan is ready, coach chat messages, workout rating reminders, and coach rating notifications — in the on-site feed, by email, browser push and Telegram (the bot connects in the profile). Everything is configurable in notification settings.

The directory is the "Coaches" section: clubs and individual coaches with photos and descriptions (specialization, experience, work formats). Open the "Details" card and press "Send request".

The coach gets a notification and accepts or declines the request in their panel. Until accepted, your calendar and data are not visible to them; the status is "Request sent". Coach not responding? Message them in chat (available right after sending) or cancel the request and choose another coach.

Yes — the "Chat with coach" button appears right after you send a request, before it's confirmed. Discuss the format, price and goals before the coach accepts.

The coach sets their own price — discuss it directly (e.g. in chat). You also pay the coach directly using their payment details; PaceTrack doesn't process the money, takes no commission and only helps track payments.

No — links are independent: you can have a main coach plus, say, a swim coach or a club in parallel. If you trained on your own, your record is transferred to the chosen coach with the first request — plan and history are preserved.