Web enabled interactive aerobic training system

A system for automatically creating a personalized training plan comprising:

• a user preference input module wherein the module accepts user data including at least a time trial result and a training goal, the goal further including at least a first race at a first distance;
• a pace tracking module which accepts the user time trial result and generates at least a first pace chart;
• a sealed pre-populated workout database containing a plurality of workouts classified at least as to the type of race that each workout is optimized to prepare a racer for, intensity, physiological target, mileage range, associated pace and training phase period;
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• a personalized training plan generation module coupled to both the pace tracking module and the pre-loaded sealed workout database which accepts the user data and the pace chart and populates a training calendar with workouts from the database appropriate to meet the training goal, if sufficient time exists between when the user data is received and the date of the at least first race.

A computer-implemented method for generating a personalized training plan, the method comprising the steps of:

• accepting as input from the at least first user an at least first future planned race distance, an at least first race date and an at least first time measured for running a course of known distance;
• generating pace metrics, using a pace chart generator, based on the time measured for running the course of known distance input;
• accepting as further input user training environment data;
• selecting from a pre-populated sealed workout database, using a schedule generator, workouts and distances that can prepare the first user to complete successfully the at least first race on the first race date, provided that the workouts are run at the pace metrics and the distances indicated by the workouts selected from the workout database and wherein the workouts in the pre-populated workout database are each minimally classified as to intensity, physiological target, mileage range, associated pace and training phase period;
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• generating as output a training plan comprising the workouts from the workout database and the pace metrics for the at least first user, the training plan being compiled by the schedule generator.