I ran into an interesting gap in the new polarized plans on todays workout, curious if it’s unique to me or if others have experienced this
With the new polarized base plan there is no vo2 work. As such, when I completed polarized base mid volume my vo2 progression level had decayed significantly and was around 1.4.
Today I started polarized build mid volume and the vo2 workout it served was a breakthrough workout at a 4.0 pl. I did a quick review of alternates and saw there are no vo2 workouts in the polarized associations below a progression level of 4.0.
I’m pretty sure this means that anyone doing these two plans sequentially will run into this situation
I was able to pick out another workout that wasn’t listed as an alternate and was ‘only’ a stretch. Not a major problem but something I expect might cause confusion or potentially failures for others
Assuming the above is a common situation either new workouts at a lower pl or associating existing workouts as alternates would resolve the issue