Readiness

Two kinds of readiness

The best-known form is the daily readiness score from wearables: a morning number built from your HRV (the variation between consecutive heartbeats), your resting heart rate, your sleep and your recent load. Such a score is a handy summary of recovery signals, but a summary is what it is: underneath one number sit several measurements each with their own noise, and the weighting differs per brand. Two watches on the same wrist regularly give different numbers.

The second form looks much further ahead: goal readiness. It does not ask "how fresh are you this morning" but "how much evidence is there that you are on track for your goal". There, consistency, the development of your load and goal-relevant performances count — not last night’s sleep. Both scores can say the opposite at the same time, and that is no contradiction: you can be perfectly on track and badly rested today.

How do you read a readiness score?

Read it as a summary, not as an order. A score is only as good as the signals underneath it, and those signals are already indirect. So always look through to the components: is the number low because of your sleep, because of yesterday’s load, or simply because there is too little data? That distinction decides what you do with it — and without that breakdown a readiness number is little more than a mood in numeric form.

Be especially careful with two traps. The first is using a low score as an excuse or an alarm while you feel perfectly fine; your own perception is a full signal and deserves a vote. The second is reading a high score as permission to force things: readiness predicts no race result and guarantees no injury-free week.

How Trimetra personalises this

Trimetra shows goal readiness as a score from 0 to 100, built from how consistently you train, how your recent load relates to the base you have built, and how much goal-relevant reference there is — a benchmark session at your goal distance, for instance, or your power anchor for an FTP goal. The score deliberately stands apart from your daily form (TSB) and from your recovery signals, which have their own place in the planning elsewhere. In the insight sheet you can see per building block what is holding the score back, and without enough training data it stays empty rather than inventing a number.