Maybe it’s a pedantic thing of mine, but the after ride RPE request seems a bit… clunky. If I tell it I had a hard ride, it wants to restructure the next few rides to accommodate. But what if the ride was supposed to be hard? It seems like a comparative survey would be more appropriate. This wil…

I also struggle what to put as effort. Sometimes the intervals are “hard” but the ride not.. so what is TR supposing as effort to calculate for the AI model.

[image] GBrown0311: If I tell it I had a hard ride, it wants to restructure the next few rides to accommodate. But what if the ride was supposed to be hard? Some rides are indeed supposed to be hard and if you rate them as such it does not make your future rides easier. I’m on a low volume …

Bingo! It’s been rehashed more times than I can count in 5+ years, and this still seems the direction TR will maintain. [image]

[image] kevistraining: Some rides are indeed supposed to be hard and if you rate them as such it does not make your future rides easier. As you said, you’re only on a 3day per week plan. So it’s likely you don’t notice the changes I’m referring to as there’s a lot of rest baked into your sche…

If you are getting lots of adaptions then it isn’t because you are rating hard workouts hard.

I A/B tested it. After my ride on Tuesday, I marked it as ‘hard.’ Adaptation recommendations made. Went back and changed it to ‘moderate.’ No adaptations recommended. I’m ok with this being an artifact of my own training history and current plan, that’s fine. But I still think the after effort s…

My point was that you don’t always get adaptions if you rate workouts hard or very hard - because sometimes the system expects you to answer that way. If you are getting adaptions after rating a particular workout hard then that potentially means the system expected you to rate it moderate.

Thanks. It sprouted from early confusion of the surveys and is a mix of info from TR (mainly via Ivy) and my own paraphrasing. Not perfect, but it helps me and some others here like it too.

This should have its own link on the support page :joy:. There has been a many of workout where I’ve looked back on this. I have it saved on my phone. The amount of time I’ve been stuck between Very Hard and Hard and it came down to “Did I have one more Interval in me”

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mcneese.chad October 26, 2025, 3:02pm 4

Bingo!

It’s been rehashed more times than I can count in 5+ years, and this still seems the direction TR will maintain.

AI seems to be over estimating my capability on Threshold workouts

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