Do free ride workouts feed into adaptive training?

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I don’t actually do free ride work outs but I do race a bit on Zwift as well as a low volume training plan. Am thinking to have TR running at same time with a free ride workout, in the hope that my race data will then feed into adaptive training via the free ride.

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Not yet, but it is a high priority for our engineers to add this feature to Adaptive Training. Currently, AT incorporates all indoor and outdoor TrainerRoad workouts.

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This is what I’ve done in the past, but I’m not sure the best way to handle Zwift racing (ZRL specifically) going forward now that the Progression Levels and Adaptive Training are in place. I’ve tried just running an Endurance ride in the background for the Zwift Academy Road workouts and Base Line ride I’ve done so far which at least helps keeps my endurance PLs in place, but doesn’t account for any of the other work I’m doing during the ride. It would be super helpful if the Free Ride workouts could be setup as a “catch all” for monitoring all your PLs/Zones.

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Has this changed yet? Wondering if I need to make an effort to pull the Zwift rides into TR.

Thanks.

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No change. AT still doesn’t incorporate free ride / non-TR structured workouts

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Thanks.

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Has this changed yet? Does Adaptive Training incorporate mig free rides-sessions?

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Any of the recent updates incorporate Free Rides into Adaptive Training?

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Nope.

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Any update to this? Few questions…

  1. If this hasn’t been updated, does this mean that if I do a free ride, TR doesn’t pick it up in terms of predictions for red light/green light, or increasing my progressions? I’ve been enjoying doing some endurance rides on free ride as I can go harder or easier if I want, while still staying within the endurance range. This morning I spent a good chunk of time at a higher percentage in the endurance range because it was feeling good/easy, and a workout I likely may not have chosen otherwise.

  2. Does this apply the same to workouts tracked by my Garmin (outdoor rides) and then imported to TR, or what limitations does that have?

I’ve found that big outdoor rides tracked by my Garmin in terms of red light green light, but alternatively, I did a 15 minute all out FTP test (couldn’t make the full 20) under a TR free ride, and somehow didn’t have a yellow light the next day.

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TR will pick up on Free Rides via RLGL, but no changes to PLs will occur.

The same goes for outside rides – RLGL will pick up on them, but no PL changes will occur (unless the ride you did was a structured TR Outside Workout).

As for the FTP test, while 15 minutes of all-out riding is certainly hard, it seems like, in your case, it was not enough training stress to warrant a red/yellow warning the following day.

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Thank you for the feedback. Are the free rides/outside rides taken into consideration for AIFTP analysis?

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Yes, they are! AI FTP Detection will look at all of your rides (especially those with power data!) to determine your FTP.

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