You just rode a hard climb, or sprinted for a town sign, and your legs felt good. Was that actually a step forward? Until now, you only found out when you opened Analytics. From today, LeCoach tells you right after the ride. When an effort lifts one of your Engine levels, or clearly beats your 90-day best power, you see it in your ride report, your post-ride email, your achievements, Analytics and your coach chat.
A quick recap: what is the Engine?
The Engine lives on your Analytics page. It takes your best power at nine durations, from 15 seconds up to an hour, and places each one on a level: Recreational, Club, Competitive, Strong, Expert, Elite, National and World Class. The durations are grouped into three abilities:
Sprinting: 15 seconds, 30 seconds and 1 minute
Punching: 2, 5 and 10 minutes
Climbing: 20, 40 and 60 minutes
It shows both your all-time level and your level over the last 90 days, in watts and in watts per kilo. Think of it as your power duration curve, turned into something you can read at a glance: where you are strong, and where there is room to grow.
What counts as a level-up
A level-up happens when a ride takes one of your durations, or a whole group, to a higher level than LeCoach had for you. For example:
Your 5-minute power grows to a new level for the first time.
Your 90-day 30-second sprint grows back to a level you held before.
Your whole Sprinting group moves up a level.
Each level-up is celebrated once, on the ride that earned it. If one ride brings several, the biggest one leads and the rest are listed with it. LeCoach never tells you about a level going down. A weight change or old rides dropping out of the 90-day window don't count as level-ups either. Only real efforts on the bike do.
Big 90-day bests count too
Moving up a full level takes time. So LeCoach also flags rides that beat your 90-day best at a duration by 5% or more, even when the level stays the same. You'll see something like "new 90-day 5-minute best, +6%". These are always worded as a 90-day best, never as a level-up, so you know exactly what happened.
Where you'll see your level-ups
Right after the ride, level-ups join your other ride achievements, like a new FTP or a power PR. They show up in:
Your ride report, in the app and in the chat card for that ride.
Your post-ride email, which now lists your ride's achievements.
The achievements list in the day view and the ride recap.
The Analytics spotlight, which can pick a fresh level-up as the win of the day.
Your coach chat. The coach knows about your level-ups from the last two weeks. Ask "what's improved lately?" and you get an answer based on your own rides.
The same short sentence is used everywhere, so a level-up reads the same in your email as it does in the app.
The Engine card shows what moved this week
On the Engine card in Analytics, any duration that improved in the last 7 days now has a small "new" marker. Tap it to see what changed. After a good week of training, you can see at a glance which efforts moved, without comparing numbers yourself.
Fresher numbers, and fairer W/kg
Two smaller changes make the Engine more accurate.
First, your Engine now updates right after each ride with power, instead of waiting until you open Analytics. That is what makes the post-ride level-up possible.
Second, your W/kg bests now use your weight on the day of the effort. Before, every best was divided by your current weight. If you lost a couple of kilos since that great climb in spring, the old way made that climb look better than it was. Now each effort counts with the weight you actually carried.
Why this matters
Progress in cycling is slow, and it's easy to miss. Most weeks your FTP doesn't move, and that can feel like nothing is happening. But often your 1-minute power or your 20-minute power is creeping up underneath. Level-ups and 90-day bests make that progress visible on the day it happens, which is one of the clearest signs your training is working.
It also helps your coaching. When you know your punching has grown but your climbing is flat, you can ask LeCoach what to focus on next, and the answer starts from your own data.
Try it
There's nothing to set up. Ride with a power meter or on a smart trainer, sync through Intervals.icu as usual, and check your ride report afterwards. Want a better shot at a level-up? Ask your coach which Engine duration is closest to the next level, and plan a hard effort for it.