Near the bottom of Progress there is a cloud of words with one or two lit up, All-rounder or Climber or Sprinter or Time triallist. It is the least self-explanatory thing in the app, so this is what sits behind it.
Five durations, one reference
Your power profile is built from the best power you have produced at five durations in the last 90 days.
| Duration | What it describes |
|---|---|
| 5 seconds | Sprint |
| 1 minute | Anaerobic |
| 5 minutes | VO2 max |
| 20 minutes | Threshold |
| 60 minutes | Endurance |
Each best is divided by your weight to give watts per kilogram, then compared against a reference figure for a strong club rider at that duration, which is 15.0 at five seconds, 7.0 at a minute, 4.5 at five minutes, 3.8 at twenty and 3.2 at an hour. Your score is your figure as a percentage of that reference.
So a score of 100 at five minutes means you produced 4.5 w/kg for five minutes in the last ninety days, and a score of 70 means you produced about 3.15.
The reference is a fixed yardstick rather than a judgement, so scores well under 100 are entirely normal. The profile can also only see efforts you have actually made, so if you have not sprinted since August, your sprint bar is measuring your recent riding rather than your sprint.
How the shape becomes a name
The label comes from the shape of those five scores relative to your own average, not to anyone else's.
If your highest score is less than 12% above your personal average, you are an All-rounder. Nothing stands out, which is itself a finding.
Otherwise the app looks for durations more than 8% above your average and names you after the strongest. One duration standing out gives Sprinter, Puncheur, Climber, Time triallist or Rouleur. Two adjacent ones standing out together are more specific, so five seconds and one minute make a Sprinter, one minute and five minutes make a Puncheur, and twenty and sixty minutes make a Time triallist.
Because it is relative to your own average, the label describes your shape rather than your level, and a first-season rider and a very strong one can both read as Climber. It answers what you are comparatively good at rather than how good you are.
Why two labels can disagree
The chip on the Progress page comes from the rider type stored on your profile, which is a setting. It tells the plan what to lean into, and you can change it on your metrics page.
The "reads as" line on your power profile is computed fresh from the last ninety days of riding.
They are allowed to differ, and when they do it is informative. If you have set yourself as a Climber and your recent riding reads as a Sprinter, either your training has drifted away from your intention or your intention needs updating, and neither is an error.
The Durable chip
One chip does not come from the power profile at all. Durable lights up when your Durability Score is 60 or above, which measures how well your power holds up deep into long rides rather than how high it peaks. We have written about what the Durability Score predicts separately.
What to do with it
Rather than accepting the label, look at the bar that is lowest and ask whether it matters for what you are training for.
A Sprinter profile with a low sixty-minute score is a fine thing for a criterium rider and a problem for someone entered in a long sportive, and a Time triallist shape with a poor one-minute score is exactly right for a flat time trial but will cost you every time the road kicks up in a group ride.
Train the limiter your event will actually find.
If your profile looks empty
It needs power data, so rides without a power meter cannot contribute, and the app needs a ride containing a genuine effort at a duration before it can score it. If you have ridden nothing but steady endurance for three months, expect flat bars at five seconds and one minute, and read that as missing data rather than missing ability.
Rider profile and power profile are Premium features.