Hope I’m not on my own thinking this would be a good addition, but think it would be brilliant if you were given a reason for the adaptations proposed for upcoming workouts in your training plan. Recently TR has advised a few adaptions that I have no clue why.
One was a reduction in up coming endurance workouts, the only reason I could see this was my pc crashed 4mins from the end of a 2hr ride, I rated it as easy but maybe it saw it as incomplete?
Another was I completed an hour half sweat spot ride, I’d under fuelled and it was a bit of a mental battle, but I got through it and completed the survey as hard. It’s now proposing reducing the pl level of my upcoming ss rides.
It would be great if it gave a reason for the offered change, even if it was very concise. Then I’d have a better idea to know if to go with the adaptions or sack em off, cos maybe it was just a bad day.
As you list 3 reasons for the change to the endurance ride, that’s why I think it would be great if there was a few short sentences explaining why the change, because then I could make a better judgement deciding to keep or ignore the proposed changes.
If its was because my pl level had dropped (although I would expect the plan I was on to keep my pl levels increasing), then I would ignore the changes. If it is because it falls on a yellow day then, I would be more inclined to accept them.
Yup! I get where you’re coming from and agree we could give a reasoning
A good way to tell if a given day is meant to be easy is when you build your plan through the Plan Builder flow in the Schedule section, as it will list out if a given day should be an Easy Ride:
Then, Recovery Weeks are easily spotted since you’ll only get scheduled Endurance workouts.
If its was because my pl level had dropped (although I would expect the plan I was on to keep my pl levels increasing), then I would ignore the changes.
In this case, I would also accept the adaptations if your PLs go down on a given zone. They are easily regained and the plan will continue to increase the Workout Levels if you keep active on a given zone. It’s better to decrease the level for one workout and successfully complete it, thus letting AT know you’re ready for higher Workout Levels than potentially risking jumping into a level you’re not ready for. The idea is to progress through the levels not make big leaps.
Totally unrelated, but I noticed you’re using the old Calendar. If you’d like to set the new one you can enable it under your Account settings:
