Should I put all my trust in the AI for my Sweet Spot & Threshold rides, even though it appears to be overestimating my capabilities, or is that part of the process? For example: Abbey 2.5/61 followed a week later by Tray Mountain -2 4.0/67, then Truchas -2 5.5/74 is scheduled for this week. I man…

That temple workout looks like it could be “maximum effort” to me because it looks like you really struggled to maintain your cadence. Out of interest - what smart trainer are you using? The power looks excessively smooth and “on target” so it looks like some kind of ERG mode smoothing. I’m wonde…

They’ll be changing gears at the changes in pace. My graphs look like that even when not struggling if there’s a change in intensity.

[image] Twattsvelo: They’ll be changing gears at the changes in pace. I hope they aren’t changing gears in ERG mode?

[image] kevistraining: The power looks excessively smooth and “on target” so it looks like some kind of ERG mode smoothing. I’m wondering if this could be making system think you are performing better than you are. On wahoo trainers you can turn this off but on some you can’t. I just don’t un…

[image] Torneng: Power Smoothing is just something that is done to the value shown to the user. Not when its done on the trainer - ERG power smoothing effects the data before it gets to the software - essentially its just showing what target the trainer was set to. Different to smoothing tha…

Depending on the trainer, the ERG mode takes a while to get to the right level. Changing up/down a couple of gears speeds it up. I have to do it with mine as it’s very slow to ramp up/down.

You nailed it, its a Kickr Core 2 trainer and the option ‘Erg mode power smoothing’ is turned on. Is there any advantage to turning this option off?

Turn it off!!! The only “advantage” (if you can call it that) to having it on is that the graph looks nice and neat. I’d much prefer to actually be able to see what’s going on :grin:

Are you fueling during your workouts? I found that made a big difference in my ability to complete threshold and VO2 max workouts as intended.

It is truly the most useless feature ever that has never done any good to anyone.

AI seems to be over estimating my capability on Threshold workouts

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MikeMckinney October 28, 2025, 8:29pm 27

or make your own mix - there are lot of recipes on here and a lot cheaper than buying Tailwind or Skratch.

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AI seems to be over estimating my capability on Threshold workouts

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