Did Galena +3 get changed?

[Shrike]

I’m in the data geek heaven position of being able to compare my base plan workouts this year against last years as I’m in the 5th week of SSBHV I. I’ve noticed a discrepancy with Galena +3 though. With the 2017 Galena +3 the 20min blocks get progressively harder then a bit easier on the last one. This is similar to Galena.

The one I have planned for this Sunday has 4 20 minute blocks all at the same power.

Any explanation? Quite happy with the new version if it is a new version

[pwandoff]

Have the plans changed?

Just finishing Sweet Spot Base mid vol 2, and when I see my finished workouts, they are different from the workouts I get when I go and click on the same plan under training plans. Do they keep changing the workouts? Also, just curious, how do they come by these names?

[Shrike]

Yeah they’ve made tweaks to the Mid and Low plans, but they’ve specifically said that the High Vol plan hasn’t changed. Galena +3 does look changed however, which is a HV workout.

[pwandoff]

It’s also in Century - MV; maybe that’s the reason?

[Shrike]

Could be, think it was an oversight of whoever said the HV plans were untouched when I asked on this forum recently. One of the mods or leader type guys that posts a lot.

Just noticed Wright Peak -1 has also been changed to make it easier too. First interval has a one minute break as normal, but now the second two intervals have two breaks of 30secs, which is mentally a lot easier to deal with. Definitely wasn’t like this last year.

They’ve done good with these changes, glad HV has seen some love. Going to take a look through High Vol II later and see I spot anything else.

[ErickVH]

I thought @chad had said he was going to leave the old workouts alone and create +/- or similar workouts after the Mary Austin thing?

[pwandoff]

Seems like that applied to Mary Austin only, from what I recall. Here’s his answer from the discussion about changing plans linked above…

@chad

When possible, I’ll leave the workouts as they are and I’ll just add an alternate version and maybe plunk that into a plan in place of what we’ve found to be a less effective workout or version. But you can still choose to do the other workout if you like.

Then when I do change a workout, it will be something along the lines of breaking up a too-long set of repeats, adding another minute or two of recovery between intervals that see riders failing early, or removing the initial ramps into intervals (these are mostly holdovers from my ergo-mode-centric views when I first developed those particular workouts).

I’ll try to keep the disruptions minimal, but when you notice changes just take that to mean we’ve found (or are close to finding) a better ways to increase workout success, improve overall performance, make you faster.

[purgatos]

It must have been, because I look at my scheduled workouts, it gives a TSS of 143 for Galena +3, but when I click through the workout itself it is actually a TSS of 137. Not a big difference, but definitely looks like an update.