How day targets and day types work

Gauge's core idea: a rest day and a long-run day should not have the same targets. Your daily calories and carbs move with how you train.

The three target modes

Pick yours in Settings → Daily Targets:

• My own numbers — your goals are used verbatim, every day. Nothing recalculates. The chip on Home reads "Your targets."
• Calculate for me — Gauge computes targets from your goal and how you actually train. No event required.
• Event training — periodized fueling toward a race. Requires an active training block (see the Training articles).

Day types

Each day gets a type that shapes its targets: Rest day, Easy day, Quality day, Long run day, Race day, Big day, or Training day. You'll see it as the chip at the top of Home — on training days it can include intensity and in-run carbs, like "Training day · easy · 45g in-run."

Hard and long days push calories and carbs up; rest days bring them down. Endurance athletes see bigger carb swings with session length; strength and functional athletes get a steadier target that rises modestly on training days.

Telling Gauge how you trained

If your training doesn't come from a synced source (common for lifting), tap the day-type chip to answer "How did you train today?" — Didn't train, Easy, Moderate, or Hard. Most training days are Easy; that's normal, not modest. You can tag any day from yesterday through the coming week, from the chip or from any day row on the Training screen.

When a workout syncs in later (from Strava or your health app), the day re-grades automatically — completed sessions always win over planned ones.

Editing the numbers themselves

Your baseline goals live in Settings → Goals & Targets, and the Goal Calculator can rebuild them from your stats. Changes to any engine input — target mode, training style, weight-goal pace, daily activity — rebuild your targets immediately.