Using the Hub as a self-coached athlete

What "self-coached" means here

You have a Hub account, you race, you train consistently, but you do not have a coach assigned to your roster. Either you are between coaches, you are an experienced athlete who prefers to plan for yourself, or you are using the Hub as a training journal more than a coaching platform.

What works without a coach

Race planning wizard

The 7-step wizard at /admin/race-planning-wizard/ is the highest-value self-coached tool. Run each step yourself; saved outputs become your race plan. Re-run any step when new test data comes in.

You need premium tier to run calculators directly (see Free vs Premium athlete). Self-paid premium is $49/yr.

Calculators

The full calculator catalog is open to premium athletes. Useful self-service tools:

• CSS calculator for swim threshold.
• Critical Power calculator for bike threshold.
• Sweat rate test for hydration baseline.
• Fueling planner for race nutrition.

Activity tracking and analytics

• Upload FIT, TCX, or GPX files. See Activity FIT parser metrics.
• The sport analytics pages give you power curves, pace curves, PDC for swim, and HR zones.
• Career best efforts at standard durations.

Wellness logging

• /my-wellness/ is open to all athletes.
• Concerning flags still fire on your own logs even with no coach attached. You become your own dashboard reader. See Concerning flags explained.

Race calendar and recaps

• Add your own races at /my-races/.
• File a race recap after each race. Without a coach to read it, the recap is for your future self.

Equipment inventory

• Open to all athletes. Track your gear at /my-equipment/.

What is harder without a coach

Macrocycle planning

MacrocyclePlan records are typically created by a coach. A self-coached athlete can still create a plan in admin (or via API if comfortable), but the UX for individual plan authoring is not yet polished. Most self-coached athletes use the season view and manage their own structure in a calendar tool, importing key races into the Hub.

Notes and assessments

You can write notes to yourself in the activity comment thread (see Activity notes), but CoachNotes are typically authored by an attached coach. Self-coached athletes use the activity notes thread as their training journal instead.

Concerning-flag follow-up

Concerning flags surface on a coach dashboard. Without a coach, you read them yourself: check your most recent wellness log and the surrounding week each Sunday or Monday.

Metric review queue

When the system flags an auto-extracted metric as anomalous, it goes into a coach review queue (see Reviewing metric submissions). Self-coached athletes accept or decline their own flagged values from the same UI.

When to consider getting a coach

Common signals:

• You hit a fitness plateau and self-experimentation has not moved it for 3 to 6 months.
• You are training for your first long-course race and want expert eyes on the build.
• You have a specific weakness (swim, bike, run) and want targeted help.
• You are racing more than once a year at A-priority level and the planning load exceeds your interest.

See also: Roles in the Hub, Free vs Premium athlete, Race planning workflow.