Pace Plan
The Pace Plan is the sixth tab of a Training Plan. It turns your goal finish time into split targets. The tab becomes available once a goal time is set in Event Details.
Which mode you get follows the event's terrain: road and mixed events get distance splits, trail events get section-by-section pacing.
Road events
Choose a strategy:
- Even Split — constant pace throughout
- Negative Split — start conservative, finish faster
Goal assessment compares your goal against a fitness-derived estimate and labels it Aggressive, Realistic, or Conservative. Alongside it, a system suggestion gives the finish time your current fitness data implies. Both are modeled from your training history, not predictions of race day.
Pace splits are km-by-km targets with suggested pace, elapsed time, and totals. Edit any segment and the remaining segments rebalance to hold your goal time.
Trail events
Trail mode applies when terrain is set to Trail, and paces each section for its elevation.
An even split is meaningless on a course where one kilometer climbs 200 m and the next descends it. Sectioning the course is how you avoid pacing the climbs like the flats: you define where the steep climbing is, where it is runnable, and where it descends, and each section gets its own target. The output doubles as course study — by race day you have already been through the profile once, and at hour six you are following a plan rather than judging effort while tired.
Defining sections
Sections should follow the character of the course, not arbitrary distances. A long grind, a runnable ridge, and a technical descent are 3 sections even if they are unequal lengths, because each is paced differently and each is a separate thing to get through.
Three ways to define them:
- Manual — add each section with distance, elevation gain, elevation loss, and an optional checkpoint cutoff
- Auto-generate — choose a section length and elevation profile to produce uniform sections
- GPX upload — upload a GPX file and segment it by equal distance or by terrain change
With GPX data loaded, a course builder appears: an interactive map and elevation profile with draggable section boundaries.
Results
- Estimated pace per section, adjusted for elevation
- Cumulative elapsed time
- Time of day at each checkpoint, where a race start time is set
- Cutoff margin and at-risk section warnings
- An estimated finish time for comparison
Cutoff assessment
With a cutoff time entered, Basecamp marks your estimated finish On Track or At Risk, giving the margin as a percentage and naming the sections that put it there.
Actions
Generate, Save & Recalculate, Edit Plan, and Reset.
Units
Distance and pace follow your profile settings. Set them under Profile.