Personal Bests & Ghost Rider
Last updated: 2026-05-10
Your Trainer is a multi-rider indoor cycling app for Android tablets. Smart-trainer control with local data + local control. One-time purchase.
Every workout you finish is compared against your previous attempts on the same workout. The result is a personal best — a single number per rider, per workout, that captures your best effort to date. The metric depends on what kind of workout it was; on routes, the PB unlocks a ghost rider you can race against next time.
What counts as a personal best
A PB exists per rider, per workout. The same rider can have a PB for "Sweet Spot 30" and a separate PB for "Hilly Hour Route". Each rider's PBs are independent of every other rider on the device.
Completing a workout for the first time creates the PB. Every subsequent attempt is compared against it; if the new attempt is better, it becomes the new PB and the old attempt is preserved in history. If it's worse, the existing PB stays put.
The PB metric per workout type
The "best" metric is different across workout types because the goal of each is different. A faster lap doesn't mean much for a steady Z2 workout; a lower heart rate at the same wattage does.
Power workouts
The PB metric for a power workout is your heart-rate cost — the average heart rate you held while completing the prescribed wattage. Lower is better: same workout, less HR cost means you've gotten fitter, because the same physical work was less stressful for your cardiovascular system.
For workouts with HR-zone components, an Efficiency Factor (power per heartbeat) is shown alongside.
HR-Zone workouts
The PB metric for an HR-Zone workout is your average wattage at the prescribed zones. Higher is better: same heart-rate effort, more power means you've gotten fitter.
Routes
The PB metric for a route is the completion time. Faster is better. A lap is one full pass through the route's elevation profile; for multi-lap routes the per-lap fastest time is tracked separately, so a four-lap session records four splits and the best of them is your per-lap PB.
PB chips in the library
On the workout-selection screen, every workout you've completed at least once carries a small PB chip on its card — a trophy glyph followed by the value of your best ride (e.g. "PB 138 bpm", "PB 24:18", "PB 1.82 W/bpm"). The same chip surfaces on history rows.
Each card also shows a "Diff" line and a "Last used" timestamp. Tapping the card selects the workout and goes straight to the cockpit (no intermediate detail page).
If you haven't ridden a workout yet, no chip appears — the entry is just the workout's title, summary, and category.
Session-end Personal Best card
When a ride finishes, the session-end overlay shows a ride summary (duration, distance, energy, average power, average HR, NP, TSS, elevation, average cadence) and — for workouts that qualify — a Personal Best line below it.
If it's your first qualifying ride of the workout, the line reads "Personal best" alongside the value, with a trophy. If you beat your previous PB, the line shows the new value with the improvement in brackets and the trophy. If you matched it exactly, the line says "Matches personal best".
If you didn't beat the existing PB, the line shows your ride's value with the difference in brackets and no trophy. The previous PB stays put and the new session lands in history alongside earlier attempts.
If the session can't be compared (see the next section), the line says "Incomplete workout" with a short reason.
On multi-lap routes the line also notes which lap set the result.
If the ride beat the previous best, the trophy chip on the workout's library card updates to the new value.
History detail and attempts list
Open the Workout History screen and tap any session to see its detail. For workouts you've ridden more than once, an Attempts list shows every completion with its date, duration, and PB-metric value. The current PB attempt is flagged.
Useful for spotting trends — three sessions in a row with rising HR-cost on a familiar workout is usually a sign you need a recovery day.
PB auto-promotion when sessions are deleted
If you delete the session that's currently your PB (Workout History → tap the session → Delete), the next-best attempt automatically becomes the new PB. You don't have to re-ride the workout to re-establish a PB; the library card's PB chip picks up the next-best attempt automatically.
If the deleted session was your only attempt, the PB is cleared. Riding the workout next time creates a fresh first-attempt PB.
When a session doesn't qualify for a PB
A few situations don't produce PB candidates:
- Free-ride sessions — no fixed prescription means there's nothing to compare against. Free Rides record to history but don't update any workout's PB.
- Incomplete power workouts — at least 90 % of the planned duration is needed to record a PB.
- Incomplete HR-Zone workouts — needs ≥ 90 % duration and an HRM connected for most of the ride.
- Routes with no full lap — at least one full lap is needed to qualify.
- Sessions too short to compare — a workout cut off in the warm-up doesn't count.
Ghost Rider on routes
Routes get a special PB feature: the next time you ride a route you've completed before, your previous best is replayed as a ghost rider on the terrain visualization. The ghost moves at the position your previous best occupied at every elapsed second — if you're ahead at any point, you're beating your PB; if you're behind, you're trailing it.
The ghost is rendered alongside your own rider icon on the route's elevation profile, so you can see at a glance whether you're up the road or chasing.
What the ghost actually replays
The ghost replays the speed profile of your PB ride — at every point along the route, the ghost is at the position your previous best ride was at the equivalent elapsed time. This means the ghost responds to the same elevation profile with your previous best's pacing, climbing slowly where you climbed slowly, descending fast where you descended fast.
Family ghosts
If multiple riders on the device have ridden the same route, the cockpit can show every rider's PB ghost on the same terrain — useful for rider-vs-rider competition without needing both bikes connected at once. A small chip on the cockpit indicates which ghosts are visible.