Is there a guide to what TR considers easy/moderate/hard/very hard? It seems that if an endurance ride is hard or a threshold ride is easy, something should be set wrong, or maybe I’m misunderstanding. I could use some guidance on what to respond when the intervals seemed just right for where I’m at…

@mcneese.chad , as usual great observations and nice work jumping in the the chart. Thank you! I was one of the posters a while back asking for FAQs, users’ guide, etc from TR. A beta would be a very good time to leverage participants in providing input and feedback so it’s ready to go when AT go…

[image] palmerneill: asked customer service this very question, and it is not based the perceived effort of the ride (i.e. RPE), so you can’t just mark rides easy if it felt easy and hard if they were hard. The survey is meant to be answered based on what you expected the ride to be (so enduranc…

[image] mcneese.chad: This is pretty frustrating to be told to just “go with it” in the beginning, only to learn that there may well be more specific definition they have on hand and use, without sharing until we pull harder to get the info. I agree. I, and I think plenty of other beta users…

Great post!!! :+1: I added the actual survey question into my Google sheet, because I think stepping back to that reality is important! [image]

I don’t think I know my cycle-self enough to know how I expected it to feel. I always answer in respect to RPE. I hate RPE. Imagine asking someone new to exercise “How did you expect it to feel?” Huh???

Hence the reason I made a bit of a joke , [image] and another one , [image]

Looking for some clarification from the team on if/how we’d like to best provide an update here, stay tuned!

There are clearly problems here. AT is a system that says “If this [workout + survey response}, then that [particular kind of adaptation.” But if we game the system to get the result that we want [eg, we mark a 2-hour threshold workout as “easy”] because we want a faster progression, then we are do…

[image] michaelfrommelbourne: only really be meaningful if the question was posed as: “This workout was meant to be easy [or moderate or hard] for you; was it easier/harder than or the same as that?” Yeah this is key. Assuming the recent responses from TR Support are accurate, and Moderate ac…

[image] mcneese.chad: And that is why I have a problem with the TR comments. The one prior says 2-Moderate = as expected. But what if you are doing something like a challenging workout like Leconte (Painful Over-Unders)? I have never been anywhere close to “Moderate” on that workout. I have bee…

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mcneese.chad July 6, 2021, 6:29pm 42

Hence the reason I made a bit of a joke,

and another one,

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