I think there is a misunderstanding, and perhaps this is due to the brevity of my post.
- I was only talking about AT v2.
- Essentially I was asking whether PLs will remain a workout selection tool or will morph into a fitness metric. I’m capped out at PL6 because I’d have to do endurance rides > 3 hours or very hard 3-hour workouts that incur more fatigue. I could ride longer, but don’t have the time to. So that caps my endurance PL to around 6.
- Adding shorter endurance workouts after workouts increases my fitness, but that isn’t reflected in my PL as those short endurance rides top out at PL 2.x.
- This is also relevant when you e. g. have to cut an endurance workout short for time reasons. AT v1 reacts as if this was a failed workout and adapt my PLs for future endurance rides downwards, often without decreasing the time. That happens even if the PL has of the failed workout is much lower than my endurance PL.