" In another case where you might see progression levels be reset after making a new plan is after you do a Ramp Test. After a Ramp Test, progression levels are reset, and don’t preserve the relative relationships they had to one another previous to the ramp test .
I’m not totally sure my question was dealt with fully but tbh I’m not that bothered by the levels, I’m pretty chilled about my training amd progression right now tbh as I don’t have any competitive target events, just a 110 mile ride in early July and a 100km off road enduro type thing in September.
The start of the plan. Admittedly I was barely using TrainerRoad in the months leading up to being in the beta so they had barely any workout history to go by but in any case it sounds like everyone will always start a new plan with all levels at 1.0.
There’s a few posts mentioning that the announcement was in response to the DJ video. I’m not sure that’s entirely correct. Way back in Nov/Dec 2020 I, and several others, asked about “Masters’ plans” and being able to adapt the plans, the response from @IvyAudrain was that “something will be announced shortly” (without digging up the thread I can’t be sure that those were her exact words but it’s a close enough paraphrase). At that point in an example of my sarcastic humour I posted a countdown: “28 days” that others added to over the next week to ten days. That points to TR planning to announce AT sometime around when they did, the DJ video may or may not have influenced the exact timing and unless @Nate_Pearson or someone else on the team explicitly confirm that one way or another then it’s just idle speculation on our part. (I’ll stop there!)
A slight aside: I think the release of the new plans could have been done differently. Namely announce that they were retiring the current(old) plans in a couple of weeks’ time to allow those on holiday/vacation to get back and give people a chance to populate their calendar with the old plans, making it clear that they shouldn’t then “update” their plans as that would bring in the new ones.
OK, that said, I got my AT invite this morning I signed up within a day of the podcast announcement.
One problem (for me) is that I’m currently doing the Polarised plans mostly outdoors in the UK non-summer so haven’t got anything Plan Builder originated in my calendar. However I’m filling in the questionnaire for the workouts I’ve done so the system has something, a foundation if you like, to work on once I move back to a PB based plan.
The result of that is that currently my PL for endurance is 4.8 whereas for VO2max (one of my weak points) is 6.1. Probably not a fault with AT, more that I’ve fed it skewed data.
Now to immerse myself in the system and figure out what all the terms mean in relation to what I’ve done. (Where’s the geeky nerd emoticon? )
I saw it as DJ having some information regarding the pending AT announcement and making sure he got a jab in before it was made public. I guess it’s easy to look at it as a knee jerk reaction from TrainerRoad but I think it was the other way around.
I have done some outdoor workouts based on RPE and they did impact my PL. I did fletcher a couple of weeks back and my endurance increased from 3.7 to 4.8 so as you start do them they should change your PL (assuming you are using Garmin). I am doing another one tonight so will see what happens!
Yeah, I guess it’s a case of figuring things out. It’s likely they impact your PLs, just there’s no PL info on that particular workout page. Using Garmin 520.
I’ve been going back through my workouts and there’s definitely some anomalies. I did Bartlett Peak a couple of weeks ago https://www.trainerroad.com/app/career/bobw/rides/109438958-bartlett-peak-tr-outside-workout and it’s marked it up as “Struggle” and “Not recommended” despite it being part of a threshold progression in the polarised plan - Miller, marked as “success”, Mount Grant marked as “struggle” - and I did them all on the same hill. My assessment both during and after the workouts would have been “hard” to “very hard”, if the hill had been five minutes longer I could have still kept that power going.
From memory of what’s been said, I think there’s a 7 day limit to being able to update the survey so these are probably fixed in stone now.
Yeah, I think TRs big takeaway is to keep things under wraps slightly longer, and I say this as someone in the past who got shown some cool new very beta reporting features at my job so I could get it implemented on the demo site and then stupidly told a client about them, and they wouldn’t leave me alone after that!
So I have a thought on people upset that TR made this huge announcement about AT before being “ready” to rollout. I honestly don’t see any really constructive thoughts on how they could have done this better. I and a few others on the forum were invited to participate in very very early iterations of AT last summer. I think we had an idea of what was coming but were discreet for obvious reasons. Had there been a broader beta test group prior to their announcement, what are the chances someone would leak info before TR got to make their reveal?
I think they made their announcement because they were comfortable enough to show the world what they’re up to, and I frankly don’t see a way how they could have gotten a broader swath of users testing AT without making the feature public knowledge. So I can’t totally relate to the upset feelings that the announcement was made prior to making it generally available.
I’ve decided I can’t read the AT posts any longer. Without being in I get lost a bit. On top of that I think I’d like to stay where I’m at with my current plan until at least July and I get through the back to back to back weeks of gravel races in June. See you in July AT, I hope.
Update on this: confirmed! We can continue to expect a frequent introduction of smaller individual releases/features as we work towards releasing AT to all.
So tonight’s outdoor ride was associated with a outside workout and it did count towards progression levels. +0.3 on Endurance. Was only a gentle spin out tonight (apart from a couple of hills I couldn’t resist on!)
@IvyAudrain - I am now in the AT beta (Yay!) and I have a question. I have been on a non-AT polarized training plan. When I went through the AT intro it recommended going into plan builder and redoing my plan. So, I did that and it came up with what looked like a standard plan with a lot of high intensity work. Is there a way to make it create a polarized plan? Or do I need to do that manually?
Just got my invitation this morning, and literally just emailed support the question about being in week 3 of the 6 week polarized base and how AT will handle that. I haven’t actually enrolled until I hear more about that. When I hear back I’ll update here.
I signed up within a day of the podcast announcement.
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