No problem at all! Alternates are useful, too… just not for this! 
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Well we have been waiting something like 4-5 years for WLV2. It’s reasonable to at least ask what the latest estimated timing is.
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No one works harder for and delivers more useful updates in the training space than TR.
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Sorry don’t understand this, hope someone can explain.
What is the difference between editing your workout and select a Zwift race/group ride etc) and do that or just do your race or ride and ignore the workout?
Ive been wondering the same thing
The primary benefit of swapping individual workouts is for planning and visualization purposes, as well as for maintaining a healthy and consistent training load.
Setting your workout as a Zwift race will completely replace the scheduled TrainerRoad workout on your calendar with the planned Zwift race. Training-wise, this is what we want: you’re not exactly skipping your workout for the day so much as replacing it with another very challenging (and taxing) form of training.
Leaving the TR workout on your calendar and doing the Zwift race instead won’t negatively impact your Training Plan, but you will see an incomplete (skipped) TrainerRoad workout on your calendar in perpetuity. Worst-case scenario, you might even be tempted to do the TR workout in addition to the race! For most athletes, that’s going to be more hard work than you need in a day.
In summation, whether you swap out individual workouts for Zwift races is up to you, but it can be a very helpful way keep Zwift races in perspective in regards to how they fit into your training plan.
Ok thanks for clarifying. Neither options affect adapative training and future workouts I assume?
If I have an OU workout and do a Zwift race or a hard outside group ride instead, either by replacing it in calendar or just ignoring it, the TSS will be the same? Will plan change other workouts to accommodate for the replaced one based on the performance done?
Most likely it will not be as beneficial as the planned OU interval and the planned “time in zones” will be different. Usually there will be some/a lot zone 3 in a race I guess and hard VO2max/anaerobic efforts on climbs and sprints.
You won’t likely see immediate, preemptive changes to your plan just from swapping the workout to a Zwift race, but Adaptive training incorporates an understanding of what you do during that activity into what workouts it recommends next. You may see an easy day or two recommended immediately after the event, depending on how hard you go. And your performance in this Zwift race will be one of many factors influencing what workouts you receive next in your training plan.
It’s true that in many cases, replacing a structured workout with an unstructured ride or race isn’t as productive, training-wise. But whatever keeps you consistent and enjoying the process is a positive step forward, and that hard time pedaling is still money in the proverbial training bank.
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