Avoiding a red day on a group ride

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I’ve got an easy group ride this weekend, but my calendar is showing a red day, and it’s been pretty spot on lately. This particular ride is important to me. I can turn down Fridays workout (and I’m okay giving up the training), but is there a better way to have it automatically adjust the workouts?

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Do you have the group ride scheduled on your calendar? If not, that’s the first step

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Yeah, and it hasn’t made any changes.

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It looks like your training is going really well. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

If it was me, and assuming you feel as strong as that calendar suggests you should, I’d eat like a champ for the next 2 or 3 days and push on through. Your volume isn’t that high that you’re going to dig a hole with a short period of pushing the envelope.

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Push the threshold ride to Sunday and it will automatically adapt?

Actually, it looks like you’re on a three per week plan so , I would convert the threshold ride to your group ride.

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Just cancel your Friday workout. Have fun on the group ride.

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Easy, don’t record the ride, no impact on your red day. Or disable the fatigue.

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I’m on a Masters plan for partly that reason. It let’s me compact my workouts into three days Tu,We,Th as the middle one is an endurance one. It leaves Friday (except for a short and easy commute) free so I can enjoy my weekend or when I was racing TTs to recover for them instead.

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I assume you are joking.

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Not at all. I disabled mine. it doesn’t offer me any value.

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You suggested not recording the ride.

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And disabling RL/GL.

Regarding not recording the ride: I went for a wander with the kids in the neighborhood and recorded my walk, I got a yellow day from it :man_shrugging:t2:

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:face_with_diagonal_mouth:

I need a break from the forums.

Have a happy Easter everyone!
:egg::bell::egg:

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Fatigue detection can be tricky like that apparently :man_shrugging: . I went for a walk today (a red day after a longer ride yesterday) and it made Saturday a yellow day for me, suggested dropping my 60 min endurance workout and dropped my FTP detection for Sunday by a point. When I deleted the walk from the calendar, tomorrow is no longer a yellow day, no more suggestion for a rest day instead of 60 min endurance workout, and FTP prediction back up a point.

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Decided to let yesterday go, and today’s ride felt great. It may cost me a bit on my projected FTP. But this is what the work is for.

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