# Couple questions on outdoor workouts using TR **URL:** \ **Category:** TrainerRoad Software\ **Created:** [August 9, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/couple-questions-on-outdoor-workouts-using-tr/105045 "2025-08-09T16:41:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
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I’m trying out TR after being off the platform for a few years and have a few questions on how things work. TIA for your help! 1. is there a way to look at upcoming outdoor workouts and see the specific wattages and lengths of each step? The outdoor workouts I’m getting assigned show a picture of the structure, but when you go into the detail, they say things like “warm up for 10 minutes between 100 and 250 watts” and “ride for 90 minutes averaging 250 watts”, but never “this workout consists of 3 sets of 2 minute overs at 250 watts followed by 3 minute unders at 230 watts” like an indoor workout would have. When I do the workout on my Garmin, it has all the steps and wattage ranges and works perfectly, but the descriptions in TR don’t have them. Is there an easier way to see the detail like you would for an indoor workout without going into the “Workouts” menu and searching for the indoor workout by name? I like to know the wattages before I start the ride just in case I miss a pop up. 2. After my outdoor workout is complete, when I open TR to do the post-ride survey, TR opens to the Career page, which shows the workout as upcoming, not completed. When I move over to the Calendar page, it shows the ride as completed and associated with the workout, but I have to then open the completed ride and click around to get to the survey. I would expect that when I open TR post-ride, it takes me directly to the post-ride survey for the completed ride. Am I doing something wrong or is this expected behavior? 3. Do the TR weeks not progressively offer up harder workouts and higher TSS weeks? This might just be because I’m new and it’s learning me (it’s only week 2), but I find that if it offers me a PL 3.0 Threshold workout on Saturday, and I then choose an Alternate PL4.5 TH workout and complete it, the next week it offers me a PL 3.2 TH workout instead of a 4.7. Also, week 2 had lower overall TSS than week 1. 4. I’m having the same issue that someone else posted in another thread where when I open my Garmin, it shows me the wrong workout for today. When I click “Training” on the Garmin, the correct workout is there, but it’s not the default that I see when I first turn it on. Is this normal? Thanks for your help. It’s been a while, so I’m getting reacquainted with how everything works! --- _[View the full topic](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/couple-questions-on-outdoor-workouts-using-tr/105045)._