Adding Event - Mileage Based

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This seems like a pretty “basic” ask I guess.

When will we be able to enter an event based on mileage and not time? Just seems that should at least be an option.

Anyone have any insight??

Thanks!

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I doubt that will happen, as TR is more focused on training you for an effort forma time. A specific distance might take wildly different amounts of time, depending on terrain and discipline (MTB, road, etc).

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Mileage isn’t a good metric for total training volume and effect. For a given TSS and IF, mileage can be widely different depending the situation. Personally, I go about twice as far for a given TSS and IF on a road ride than I do on a mtb ride, and it’s highly dependent on the course. And of course I go zero miles on the trainer irrespective of how much time or intensity I put in. My body doesn’t care how many miles I’ve covered or feet I’ve climbed, only how hard I worked and for how long.

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Thanks for the replies, but I was actually referring to adding race events based on distance - not structured workouts based on distance.

For example, I have a gravel race that is 75 miles. I have no idea how long that will take me. I DO know that the race is 75 miles.

Not sure how TR AI takes into account events and their estimated time. Another example, I had a race last year that was 110 miles and I just put down 9 hours as the event length. It actually took me 11 due to weather conditions. I would think AI would be able to better use distance versus time when incorporating races into the mix.

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If you aren’t sure how long it will take, make your best guess. The plan TR prescribes to get you there will still be very good.

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But we’ve been told the AI looks at our watts so it ought to have a prediction?

I totally get that that different courses have different expectations ( say a road course vs mtb) but I think that it should be able to cross match finishers and see what watts they put out?

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There’s absolutely no chance for any valid guess on the AI’s side of things. If a human knowing the course elevation profile, surface, technicality, approximate weather conditions, altitude, and his personal drafting skills and strategy, possibly along with previous effort on the same course, can’t guesstimate well enough, there’s no chance that any algorithm missing all this information could perform better or give any meaningful number whatsoever.