Help AI converge

As others have suggested, it’s good to err on the side of caution. What is hard but achievable (just!) for a week could be completely overwhelming by the end of week 3. I made this mistake late last year, advancing too quickly, & by the second week every workout filled me with dread, I was bailing from some workouts, & even cut the block short. It was an effective way to derail the end of a block & leave me intimidated by the thought of anything more. Actually, cooling was a big factor too & I was trying to get accustomed to higher workloads so I could participate in the full Disaster shenanigans. Did it too aggressively, on too short notice, so I’ve learnt my lesson. :pray:

What’s the structure of your build? If it’s the trio of VO2/threshold/sweetspot you could manually accelerate one workout type & let AT guide the others. Ideally what you’re most familiar with. That way if you get it wrong it’s not so big a deal. When I first started with TR I’d done a good bit of sweetspot outside of TR but no threshold or VO2, so I knew where to bump sweetspot to. Sure threshold started slowly but it was delivering me appropriately hard workouts in about a month anyway. In that block I felt like the sweetspot work was the bread & butter, & threshold was just a bit of extra time in zone until it caught up.

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