I do all my work outdoors. What would be really cool would be if outdoor workouts weren’t a different colored version of the indoor workouts, but instead built around thinking through what it would actually be like to ride that workout on the road. For example, a category of workouts could be built for doing them on a 5 minute or 10 minute climb, taking into consideration that there needs to a fixed number of minutes to go back down the hill.
If memory serves, this was how the Training Bible, CTS workouts, and I’m sure others, we’re all structured. The workout description was usually, ‘find a rolling stretch of road’, or ‘find a short hill’, etc.