Step 4 Create the training session

The goal

FINISH in the Training activity, with your athletes loaded: at an athlete's first passing, training starts by itself and everyone joins in turn.

Before you start

• The athletes in the database, with their transponder (step 2).
• The decoder connected (step 3).

What to do, one action at a time

1. The Training activity

   SessionSession configuration…: Training, your sport and discipline (for example Speed skating › Short track (111.12)), your venue. The Free session panel appears, Generate free sessions automatically already ticked; keep the Individual template. Confirm.

   FINISH sets multiple races, automatic loading and automatic closing by itself; the badge in the command bar says Training.

2. Choose the athletes

   History › Athletes: select the athletes for the session (Ctrl + click, Shift + click, or Ctrl+A for everyone in the filtered list).

3. Create the Excel session

   Create an Excel session…. The Create an Excel session window shows each athlete in their colours, with their transponders and min / max. Enter a Session name (“Tuesday training”).

4. Save and load

   Save and load into the session…: choose where to keep the workbook, confirm (the current session is closed).

   The command bar says “Tuesday training”; the Athletes tab lists the athletes with their transponder and min / max. The race list is empty: that is normal.

5. Next times

   FileOpen a session… → the same workbook. Save the file… keeps the workbook without loading it (to edit in Excel, or open on another computer).

6. The starting gun (optional)

   With a gun connected to the decoder: Configuration tab › Starting gun: Start for all (reset laps in progress) resets the laps in progress to the time of the shot; Activation/deactivation (ON/OFF) alternates effort (ON) and rest (OFF), shown large in the command bar (ON/OFF phase) and on the screens.

7. The first passing

   Decoder ON, Passings ON. The first athlete crosses the line.

   A race “LIBRE_…” is created and started at that time; each athlete joins at their first passing (that passing is not a lap), then their laps appear.

What success looks like

• The Training badge in the command bar and the name of your session.
• At the first passing, a LIBRE_… race appears without anyone loading it; each athlete has their laps.
• Twenty minutes without any passing: the training closes by itself and becomes “raced” (kept in the history).

Common problems and solutions