Curiosity about AI predicted difficulty

This isn’t a complaint but a curiosity. I’m coming off a week+ of being sick and a recovery week in which I’ve only done 2 endurance level workouts. I had a VO2 max workout scheduled for Tuesday but I changed it to Truchas +1 (essentially 2x22 min sweet spot intervals) to ease back into my workouts. The AI predicted difficulty shows that I have a 92.8% (combined) chance of the workout being moderate or hard. I have a 2.2% chance of failing it. Because of the 2.2% chance of failing it, the program recommends against doing the workout. I’m really curious about such a low percentage prompting a negative recommendation. Why?

First question: how does the workout you’ve chosen compare to recent sweetspot workouts in terms of power and interval length?

Simply put, our AI has very high standards :grin: There are lots of workouts available for it to choose from, and while 2.2% doesn’t sound very likely, it’s high enough that the AI prefers to recommend other options instead.

My most recent sweet spot workout was a 6.3 level (Eichorn +2) which was 2x20 at 94% of FTP which I marked in the survey as moderate. Truchas +1 is 2x22 at 92-94% and is a level 6.2 although they’re very comparable. I’m not really interested in the difference in the workouts though. I’m more curious about why such a small percentage (2.2%) triggers a recommendation to not do a workout.

Then Eddie has your answer :+1::slightly_smiling_face::+1: