Looking forward, and asking first
Race projections, training pace zones and a six-month fitness trend — plus explicit consent for the heart rate and VO2max data that feeds them.
Your dashboard could tell you what you had already done. It could not tell you what any of it was worth. Three new blocks sit at the top of your activities now, and all three answer the question you actually have — which makes this a good moment to also settle how the data behind them is handled.
What you could run today
Four cards: 5K, 10K, half marathon, marathon — a projected time and the pace it needs, for each. Not a goal, not a plan, just an honest read of what your current fitness supports if you went out on Saturday and did it. The paces follow your km/mi preference.
What to run tomorrow
Five pace bands, from easy through marathon, threshold and interval to repetition, with the range for each. This is the part that turns a number into training: it tells you how slow your easy runs are meant to be, which is the thing most runners get wrong. Put your maximum heart rate on your profile and the heart rate zones appear alongside them.
Where you are heading
A six-month line of your weekly average fitness. Under three weeks of data it declines to draw a line rather than pretending three points are a trend.
All three read the same number: the best VO2max estimate your recent runs actually support, preferring recent runs the estimate is confident about and falling back gracefully when you have been away. If there is nothing to go on, each block says so and points you at logging a run instead of showing you an empty box. The projections and the zones come from calcpace, the open-source library this site's arithmetic runs on.
And the data underneath it
Heart rate is health data. So is a VO2max estimate, and so is an age grade. Under both Brazilian and European law that is a special category of personal information, and for a running site there is only one honest basis for holding it: you have to say yes.
So now you are asked. Signing up means ticking a box you have read, and there is a separate question about health data when you set up your profile. Both are recorded — what you agreed to, which version of the document, and when.
Saying no does not cripple the site. Decline the health data question and no heart rate, VO2max or age grade is computed or stored anywhere — not from the form, not from a GPX file, not from a Strava import — while distance, time, pace, elevation, your route and your whole history carry on exactly as before. Consent you cannot refuse is not consent. Change your mind and it is deleted, not just switched off. And disconnecting Strava now removes the runs that came from it, which is both what Strava's own rules require and what most people assume already happened.
The privacy policy and terms were rewritten from scratch in the process, because the old ones described a site that did not exist — including a couple of sections rendering as blank on the live page. They are now correct, and correct in every language the site is served in, rather than accurate in English and stale everywhere else.
