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Why do your interval times never make it past practice?

A split shouted across the infield and scrawled on a clipboard is a time that exists for about a day, and the fix costs nothing.

Most training times never become a record of anything. A coach calls out a split, somebody writes it on a clipboard or a scrap of paper, and by the following week nobody can say what the athlete ran on the 400s six weeks ago, let alone whether it has improved.

Where the time actually goes

It is not that coaches do not care about the number. It is that running a session and writing down a session are two different jobs, and doing both at once means one of them gets done badly. The split gets shouted, half heard, and never lands anywhere an athlete can find it again.

What the Workout page does

It is a stopwatch built for this specific problem rather than a general one. Choose reps, which times a rest between each effort, or laps, which does not. Tap Start, tap Rep done or Lap at each finish, and the app keeps every interval without anyone needing a clipboard.

• Reps mode times the rest automatically between attempts, so the rest is on the record along with the work.
• Laps mode assumes no rest and just keeps timing, which fits a continuous set like a tempo run.
• Everything stays on the phone until you choose to send it, so nothing is lost mid-session if you change your mind about the workout.

Sending a session puts it straight into that athlete's StatLap training log, where it sits next to their meet results rather than in a separate notebook. It is the same log page where they can message their coach about it, if a rep felt off in a way the number did not show.

What this is not

It is a big-button stopwatch, not the automatic timing the app uses on race day. Nobody's reaction has been removed from it. Tapping Rep done still has a person's thumb in the loop, the same as a handheld watch, so a single split here is not more accurate than a coach with a stopwatch was.

What it changes is not the accuracy of one split, it is what happens to the split after it is taken. A time that used to disappear into a pocket now sits in a log an athlete can look back on in March and compare to what they ran in September. That is worth more than a tenth of a second either way.

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