IQ Pace Targets Delivers Smarter Pacing After 10 Runs

The new Peloton IQ feature recommends personalized speed ranges for every interval based on a runner’s recent performance.

IQ Pace Targets is one of the new features arriving on Peloton IQ alongside Peloton’s expanded Tread lineup, and The Clip Out covers the full announcement in its launch overview. The feature replaces generic interval speed cues with personalized ranges built from a runner’s own recent workouts, so the Tread stops guessing and starts calculating.

The feature analyzes a member’s recent running performance and calculates a personalized pace range for each interval. It’s available on all Tread hardware, including Tread Flex, Tread Vision, and Tread+ Vision, but it only works on running workouts. It also requires an All-Access Membership and Personalization turned on, and Peloton IQ needs roughly ten logged running workouts before it has enough data to generate accurate ranges.

The feature builds on Pace Targets, which Peloton brought to the Tread back in 2024. Instead of calling out a specific speed, instructors call out an effort level, such as recovery, easy, moderate, challenging, or hard, and the Tread converts that call into a pace range based on a difficulty level each member sets between 1 and 10. Raising that level widens the speed range for every effort call, so the workout gets harder as fitness improves. Nearly every running, walking, and hiking class Peloton produces now runs on this system.

How IQ Pace Targets Works On Screen

Once active, the personalized ranges appear directly on screen during class. Peloton’s on-screen Shortcuts automatically align instructor pace cues to a member’s personalized targets, so when an instructor calls for a push pace, the Tread displays a number built for that runner instead of a one-size-fits-all cue. Members can still adjust speed with a single tap.

The feature builds on Pace Targets, which Peloton introduced to the Tread previously. Pace Targets translate an instructor’s effort call, like moderate pace, into a personal speed range based on a difficulty level members choose themselves. It layers Peloton IQ’s analysis on top of that mechanic, so runners who already use Pace Targets manually get a number Peloton IQ has already calculated instead of choosing a target on their own.

Closing the Gap Between Levels

Runners have long pointed to one gap in that system: moving from one difficulty level to the next, say from 4 to 5, can feel like a bigger jump than it should, and the ranges attached to higher levels run wide. The new feature narrows that gap. Rather than waiting for a runner to fully graduate to the next level, Peloton IQ reads recent performance and recommends a tighter, individualized speed range within the structure a member has already set.

A Running-Only Feature For Now

The feature covers running workouts only in this release, with no equivalent yet for walking or hiking. It joins Run Analysis and ReRuns as part of Peloton IQ’s broader push to make treadmill training smarter, rather than treating running as a secondary use case behind cycling.

Peloton Chief Product Officer Nick Caldwell said the new Tread lineup pairs the hardware with the evolving intelligence of Peloton IQ, so each model becomes a personalized training partner that meets Members where they are and grows with them over time.

IQ Pace Targets goes live October 1 alongside the new Tread hardware, though each member’s personalized ranges arrive on their own timeline as workout history builds. Peloton says the ranges adapt as fitness improves, so the feature keeps adjusting rather than locking a runner to a single baseline number.

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