Competition
A competition is one athlete's participation in a real race — an entry on their training calendar, just like a workout plan or a note. It links to a shared race event (the Berlin Marathon, your club time trial…), and carries everything specific to that one athlete: the day they race it, their goal, and — once it is over — their result.
Many athletes can link a competition to the same race event; that is how one shared race page collects everyone's results.
Competitions used to be created by ticking a box on a workout plan. They are now their own kind of calendar entry, tied to a shared race event, so athletes across clubs appear together on one race page. You no longer mark a workout plan as a competition.
Adding a competition to the calendar
On the calendar, choose Add competition on the day of the race (from the day's add menu). Then:
- Pick the race. Search the shared catalogue for the race on that date and select it. If it isn't there yet, create a new race inline with at least a name and date (optionally sport, distance and location) — it is added to the shared catalogue and linked in one step.
- Add a goal (optional) — the target for the race, visible to the athlete.
- Publish it so the athlete sees it, or Save draft to keep it visible only to you (the coach) for now — exactly like a workout plan.
A coach adds a competition to a chosen athlete's calendar; an athlete adds it to their own. You can also enter athletes straight from the race page.
How a competition appears
- On the calendar it is shown in red, visually distinct from ordinary workout plans, with a countdown to race day.
- In the athlete's Results section it is listed with the race name, date and distance pulled from the shared race event.
- It has its own discussion, so the coach and athlete can exchange messages about the race just as they do on a workout plan.
Editing a competition works like any other entry — a coach can change the goal, the date, or even which race it points to, and can remove it.
Result and status
Every competition has a status:
- Entered — on the start list, no result recorded yet.
- Finished — an official result has been recorded.
- DNS / DNF — did not start / did not finish.
Once the race is done you can record the result — the finishing time, position, total starters, age-category result, the winner's time, and the bib number — and mark a personal best. If an athlete's race-day activity is connected but no official time has been entered, the app still shows the activity's time as an unofficial result until you confirm the official one.
Connecting a recorded activity
When your race-day session syncs from your watch (Garmin, Coros, Suunto, Wahoo, Apple Watch and others), the app tries to connect it to the competition on your calendar automatically — and it checks for a matching race before it considers any easy workout you had planned that morning, so your shake-out run never steals your race file.
- If the activity covers essentially the whole race distance, the competition is marked finished and your file (pace, heart rate, splits) is shown on the race.
- If you clearly started but stopped part-way, it can connect as DNF, keeping your partial effort so your coach can see what happened.
- If it's ambiguous — a grey-zone distance, a warm-up, a sport mismatch, or GPS from a completely different place — nothing is connected, and you connect it yourself.
This all follows your "automatically merge incoming workouts" setting, and everything it does is reversible: you can connect, disconnect or change the result at any time. See How synced activities connect to workouts and races for the full picture.
If you skip a race entirely there is no file to sync, so mark DNS on the competition yourself.
Web and mobile
Adding, editing and recording competitions is available in both the web app and the mobile apps.
Related: Races — the shared catalogue of race events that competitions link to.