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It feels easy. You go out at 5k pace, the first kilometre is comfortable, and nothing on your wrist tells you anything is wrong. By the third run you are in oxygen debt. By the burpees it is over. Not because you were unfit, but because you spent the race you had in the first eight minutes.
NYVA is a pacing app you never have to look at.
8 runs, 8 stations, singles and doubles. 41 Garmin watches.
Give it a target finish time. It splits that across all 8 runs, all 8 stations and the transitions in between, then tells you how you are doing through your wrist. No screen to read, no numbers to work out, no decisions to make at 160 beats a minute.
One long buzz
You are where you should be. Keep doing exactly what you are doing.
Two buzzes
You are ahead of the plan or over the effort you can hold. Back it down now, while backing it down is still cheap.
Three quick
Time in hand and you have told it you feel fresh. This one only ever happens because you asked for it.
It will never tell you to speed up just because you are ahead.
Being up early in this race is usually adrenaline, not form, and chasing it is exactly how people come apart on the back half. So a surplus gets banked, not spent. If you want to spend it, you say so on the watch, and that is the only way that third buzz ever happens. The app will not volunteer it.
Press it when a segment ends and the next one starts. Same press every time, so it still works when you are cooked and your hands are wet. Press it by accident and you can take it back.
During a run
Not an average pace for the whole race. Run one and run eight are different jobs, and the plan knows it.
Between stations
Budgeted, timed and scored, with a buzz when you go over. Most people have no idea how much time they lose walking.
At the line
Real total time including the transitions, how far over or under you were, and the one station that cost you the most.
Everything below is in the free app. There is no locked tier, no trial and no account to make.
Finish three and it stops going on what you told it about your strengths and starts going on what you actually did. If your sled push runs over every single time, the plan starts giving it more time on its own, without being asked. Every other pacing tool hands you the same maths on your fiftieth race as your first.
Singles and doubles, open and pro weights, each with its own target that you set once and it remembers. Doubles splits the station work but not the running, and the plan is built that way rather than just aiming at a quicker time.
Pressed it twice by accident? Take it back. A wrong press mid race is undone in two presses and the clock carries on as if it never happened. Race intensity hands make this mistake, and it used to cost the whole session.
Cross the line and the activity is already there, every run, every station and every transition recorded as its own lap. Take it into whatever you already use to pick over a race. Abandon mid race and nothing is saved, so a bad day never muddies your numbers.
Every race is kept with its splits, and your best time for each category sits on the opening screen. Delete a junk one and your best time and your plan both recalculate.
Target time, category, and how strong you are at each of the eight stations. Do it on your phone before you leave, or on the watch while you are waiting to be called up.
Written the way we would want it written for us.
Anyone racing 8 runs and 8 stations, singles or doubles, who wants to finish the race they planned instead of surviving the back half of it.
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