Coach assessments

You can ask your coach for a lasting judgement about a stretch of training, not just a recap of one activity.

A Coach Assessment — a saved coaching verdict with the evidence behind it — can cover progress toward your current focus, a race debrief, a return from injury or the end of a training block. It opens with a short summary and keeps the fuller reasoning for later planning conversations.

Finding your assessments

Saved assessments are listed on the Coach Assessments screen of the web app, newest first, each with its date and title. Open one to read the summary, the outlook if your coach gave one, the full report, the evidence and any activities it cites. A button there opens a ready-written request for a new one in your assistant.

Your assistant can also reread past assessments to compare them.

The date records when the judgement happened

An assessment is dated the day your coach makes the judgement, not the period it examines. If you debrief a completed block a week after race day, the assessment carries the debrief date while its evidence period still covers the block.

This keeps the history honest: it shows when each conclusion became available to you and your coach.

What is preserved

The assessment keeps the training focus as it stood when it was saved, the date range it considered, the coach’s summary and full report, and any cited activities. The evidence figures are stored as the coach reported them.

Later syncs, duplicate removal or deleted activities do not rewrite that old judgement. A cited activity that is later deleted remains named but no longer opens. The assessment is a record of what the coach saw at the time, not a live dashboard that continually recalculates itself.

The outlook: odds and trends at a glance

Your coach can open an assessment with an outlook, shown above the report.

A race outlook

Illustrative outlook — not athlete data

The coach's estimate, not a promise

20% to hit 3:30

Stretch

Stretch to likely

3:30–3:41

• Sub 3:30 Goal 20% Stretch
• Sub 3:36 50% Toss-up
• Sub 3:41 75% Likely
• Sub 3:45 90% Very likely

• Working toward a race: your coach names four finish times — one you have a 25% chance of beating (Stretch), an even-odds best estimate (Toss-up), and times you have a 75% and 90% chance of beating (Likely, Very likely). They add their chance of your target time when you have one, and can name other times that matter to you, each with its own chance. Your target, or an extra time, takes the table row of the band its chance falls in. What-if scenarios, such as how a tune-up race goes, can carry their own odds.
• No race set: your Run Fitness — a single number for your current running ability — trend up to the end of the assessed period, with the coach’s expectation of where it is heading by a date.
• Either way: which way things are moving since earlier assessments, and a status on each part of the report, such as On track or 3 open.

Every number in the outlook is your coach’s estimate at the time, not a calculation by AgentRunCoach and not a promise. The curve is only a drawing fitted to those numbers: if no smooth curve fits them closely enough, the outlook is not saved and your coach has to reconsider the numbers. Race-day weather, pacing and how you feel all move the result. Like the rest of the assessment, the outlook is not updated afterwards.

Saving, correcting and using one

Your coach offers to save once the conversation reaches a verdict, and saving requires your agreement. An assessment is written once rather than edited. If a later conversation reaches a different conclusion, save a new assessment beside the old one so the sequence tells the story.

You can save at most two assessments in any 24 hours. An assessment is a considered verdict, not a running commentary; a third save inside that window is refused, and your coach is told when the next one can be saved. Deleting an assessment frees its place.

Delete one that should not remain from its page in the web app or by asking your coach. Deletion is permanent.

A one-run observation belongs with that activity as feedback. An athlete self-report about energy, pain or next week’s time belongs in a check-in. The assessment is the coach’s wider judgement across evidence.