I had decided not to complain even though I’ve had a rather poor experience with the new AIFTP, but now it’s acting very strange and I feel I’m way into bug territory. So I thought I should at least check with the hive mind here to see if I’m missing something.
This is weeks 2-4 of my specialty block. First off, I thought FTP adjustments should be minor or non existent in the specialty phase. But more confusing, where is this increase coming from? I’m being served workouts that seems appropriate to my current fitness, and the WL indicates to me that the current AIFTP is around where TRAI wants it. So why am I jumping 7.1% in FTP when WLs are only progressing to mid 4s? What am I missing?
Ironically the biggest WL jump is to the first VO2Max workout after the FTP adjustment. That one is a 5.5 WL workout, which means that the power I’m expecting to hold for 5 minutes increases 40 watts from one workout to the next.
Only thing I can think of is the mixed threshold intervals appear to be more difficult than their AL indicates. Or maybe it’s just me, but they tend to have a higher % of very hard and max compared to other types of threshold at the same level.
Do you have another 4 weeks of specialty after this block?
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Ok, something is definitely wrong here. When looking at my workouts on my calendar the predicted difficulty doesn’t show up for any of the workouts. But when I go to Browse Workout and search up my next Threshold workout, Pavillon, it shows as not recommended with a predicted chance of failure at 15.8%. Which of course makes the FTP jump even more strange.
Also, I forgot to mention, my training approach has mysteriously changed from Balanced to Demanding on its own.
Yes, I do have another 4 weeks of specialty, but only the first couple of workouts are within the simulation window so it doesn’t tell me much more than the weird jump in VO2Max WL.
Hey @Torneng 
Do I have permission to look into your account and post relevant info?
From the screenshot you posted I see that none of your workouts have the sparkle on them, except the last two. The sparkles normally indicate that the AI is picking them. When there is no sparkle but with the Calendar logo, this indicates that you chose an alternate…Did you edit the plan in any way?
Sure.
I haven’t edited any of the workouts, but did remove a B-race that was canceled. So the plan has been recently updated.
