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Your Numbers Now Speak Your Language

by The Next Race

Your numbers now speak your language

You set The Next Race to imperial. Weight starts showing in pounds, sure. But scroll to an athlete's profile and there it is — 180 cm, 72 kg. Hover a workout on the calendar — 10.0 km. Subscribe the plan to Apple Calendar — Distance: 10 km.

Half the app speaking metric while you asked for imperial. We just fixed that.

What changed

The preference now actually reaches every surface that shows a number:

  • Athlete profile + details dialog. Height shows as 5'11", weight as 158.7 lb when you've picked imperial. Metric users see 180 cm / 72.0 kg.
  • Calendar event hover. Distance respects your setting. 6.2 mi if you're imperial, 10.0 km if not.
  • Day-cell measurement tooltip. When you've logged weight, height, or threshold pace, the values in the hover now convert to your unit. Threshold pace flips from 4:15/km to something like 6:50/mi if you're imperial.

The subtle one: calendar subscriptions

If you publish your plan as an ICS feed and your athlete subscribes from Apple Calendar, the workout descriptions used to read Distance: 10 km for everyone — because the server has no way to know the subscriber's preference.

Now it reads your preference (the plan owner). If you train in miles, your athletes see miles. If you train in kilometres, they see kilometres. One source of truth — your unit, your plan.

What's the same

Universal units stay universal — watts (FTP), beats per minute (heart rate), mmol/L (lactate), ml/kg/min (VO₂max), wellness scores (1–10). Converting those would be wrong, not respectful.

What it means

Toggling units in settings used to be a half-measure — the data underneath was always stored in metric (and still is — that's the right call for consistency), but the display now follows you wherever you go.

Small thing. But you shouldn't have to mentally translate your own numbers in your own training app.

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