Workout typo…
The description of Fang Mountain +1 refers to Fang Mountain (not +1) Log In to TrainerRoad
Description
Fang Mountain is 4x9-minute over-under intervals with 1-minute valleys at 95% FTP and 2-minute peaks that ascend to 110% FTP.
Recoveries between OU’s are 6 minutes long.
Not strictly a typo, but the first workout in General Build LV is Williamson+2 and there are no instructions.
Disappointing on starting a new programme, as reading the instructions beforehand there were comments about cadence a nd suggestions as to what to hit, but not why… ie
"Shoot for high-rpm spins (100-120rpm), the higher the watts, the faster the spin. "
This is actually correct! Endurance workouts will be 1:1 in terms of TSS, but will be 1.5x longer in duration. Since the goal of endurance workouts is acquiring the TSS at the prescribed intensity, we’ve extended these durations to account for external factors when riding outside.
The difference you’re seeing in target zones (60-70% FTP for indoor versus 114-133 watts for outdoor) is just that calculation being made for you when selected as an Outside ride, and displaying as 60-70% of your FTP.
Hi @IvyAudrain,
your answer is logic, but there is a big but:
i searched for a workout i can ride, with filter duration and looked on intensity, TSS and IF, then i sent the workout to my Edge and then the big surprise, i think there must be a warning in the workouts himself, that a Endurance workout outdoor isn’t 1:1.
I contacted support too and they sent me a confirmation that the next time i will use Gibbs Outdoor, the duration thing is fixed, so i think you and your team have different informations for cases like this.
Anyway, it’s good to know for the future!
Apologies, there was a bit of a misunderstanding! You’ll get a follow up email from support, but Gibbs will not be 1:1 for duration.
The additional time we add to rides once elected to outside just speaks to how efficient it is to execute your workout on the trainer without any influencing factors to detract form the effort, versus the myriad of potential influencers that can detract from your effort outside (things like the terrain and weather are factors, stopping at traffic signals, navigating traffic, etc).
You should definitely feel free to exercise some agency will in determining 1) if you’ve done your outside workout and the intervals are completed (or in an endurance capacity, if you’ve gotten a the majority of the ride in), and 2) if you feel like you haven’t deviated from the primary objective of the workout. If so, you should feel free to cut it short!
Hope this helps clear everything up. Let us know if you have further questions!
Hello @IvyAudrain,
thanks it’s ok for me, anyway it need a half year of TR membership to know it, don’t forget, their are always new members they didn’t know, so i think it have to be noticed in the workouts himself!
cheers
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For all of the Corcoran workouts (-2 to +1) the first interval of the second set is 109%, vice 110% like it is for the first set. The rest of the block are the same so I think this one should be 110%, too.
Hmm looking into this… those descriptions say that “The first two sets of intervals each start with 90 seconds at 109% FTP”, but I, too, am seeing 110% for the first set. Thanks for the heads up!
Maybe that 1% is why I failed this one so badly … 
Leavitt -1, just before the 21 min mark I think, I’m pretty sure the text said “peformance”.
Good catch! Fixed!
I can’t come up with a good joke 
, so I’ll just say that there’s an extra “?” in Fletcher description.
Fletcher consists of nearly 90 minutes of aerobic Endurance riding? spent between 65-75% FTP.
Geiger +2: there’s a bit at 32:00 ish that says something about being 4 minutes into the interval, but it comes 5 minutes in.
Fixed! Thank you!
Monitor at 3:40 the text says “Time for a short warming ramp…” but it’s not a ramp just a step increase in effort. Monitor+1 says the same but Monitor-1 says “Time for a harder warming effort” which is probably what the other two should state.
In Sugarloaf +5, the fifth interval is 3 watts higher than the rest.
Mary Austin -1 : “one you’re back in the saddle…” should probably be “once you’re back in the saddle…”
As is turns out, not a typo once I went back and re-read it but I thought it was funny so I’m sharing my mis-read here:
As the last interval of Bluebell is ending, the text displayed says to “start thinking over your post-workout nutrition.” In my haze of finishing the last of 18 intervals at 120%, I read it as “start over-thinking you post-workout nutrition.” And I thought - as if I needed any more encouragement to over-think my nutrition…
Carbs… MACROS… 3:1?!? KETOSIS?!
