TrainerRoad Training Blog

Among riders who trained about the same weekly hours two seasons in a row, those who skipped the off-season and those who took up to eight weeks off came back to about the same 20-minute PR. Past eight weeks, riders were about 30% less likely to get back to last year’s PR and peaked about a month later. Here is why the off-season matters less for amateurs than for pros, and how to decide how long yours should be.

You do a big group ride, miss a workout, or feel the fatigue building. With TrainerRoad you do not go in and fix your plan. After every ride you save, TrainerRoad re-simulates the next four weeks from where you actually are. Here is what changes in each of those four situations, and the one thing you still have to do.

Is it just a templated plan, and how do you know the workout is right for you? TrainerRoad simulates every workout it could give you, using your own rides, and picks the one that fits your goals and current fitness. Here is how that works with a plan, without one, and after every ride you finish.

Tobias Kongstad and Stella Hobbs won the elite races at Life Time Big Sugar Gravel 2026. Behind them, 22% of the amateur 100-mile field has a TrainerRoad account. Here is how those riders finished on the 50 and the 100, the power they held, how many made it to the finish, and the one thing that lined up with the most time saved.

Riders who followed their plan gained about 5% in 20-minute power after two months, 9% after four, and about 10% by summer. They did the workouts as written, kept going past month four, and started early. Here is what the data says about each habit, and when to start for next season.

Two routes get an age grouper to Kona: win your age group, or race close enough to the Kona Standard for a Performance Pool slot. Here is how the age-graded ranking works, what times have been getting slots, every 2027 qualifying race with its slot count, how to claim a slot, and what a qualifier’s training year looked like in TrainerRoad data.

Who gets to Kona, what the Queen K and the Hawi climb are really like, what a year of TrainerRoad is worth against aero upgrades, how hard athletes ride an IRONMAN bike leg, and how much you sweat on the lava fields.

Two hard days a week is standard for pros and commonly recommended for masters riders. In a filtered sample of more than 14,000 TrainerRoad riders on about five hours a week, riders who did three hard days improved their 5- to 60-minute power more than riders who did two, including riders in their 40s and 50s.

On long outdoor rides, riders over 5 W/kg hold Zone 2 power steady while riders under 2.5 spike and coast. The steadiness is a habit you can copy, and slower riders already ride this way on their better days.

Connect TrainerRoad and ROUVY once, and today’s workout is waiting in ROUVY, ready to ride on any route. Here’s how the new integration works.