Default Range

Running or riding at one exact pace all the time is not especially realistic.

Terrain changes. Wind shifts. GPS drifts. Legs have good days and bad ones. To account for that, Workout Writer treats most pace and speed targets as a range by default.

How it works

When you enter a specific pace or speed, such as:

5:00/km  
12 mph

Workout Writer uses that value as the centre of a range, rather than a hard target.

For example, with a default pace range of ±10 seconds:

5:00/km → 4:50–5:10/km

That makes the workout easier to follow and much less annoying to execute on the watch.

Configuring the default range

You can control the size of this range in:

Settings → Units

There are separate sliders for:

Adjust each slider to define how wide the default range should be.

Disabling the default range

If you would rather keep pace or speed targets exact, set the corresponding default range slider to zero.

With a zero range:

5:00/km → exactly 5:00/km

Overriding the range per step

Sometimes most of the workout should be flexible, but one step should be exact.

To do this, add exactly* before the pace or speed in your workout description:

exactly 5:00/km  
exactly 12 mph

This tells Workout Writer to ignore the default range for that step.

Pace and speed tags

If you use pace- or speed-based tags (e.g. Tempo, Sprint), each tag can be configured as either:

Workout Writer will always respect the tag’s configuration, regardless of your default range settings.

This lets you mix flexible targets where they help and precise targets where accuracy matters.

Summary