How Do You Rate Endurance Rides?

[JoeX]

@mailman

how are people rating their outdoor rides?

Why associate it with a workout if your ride was not like a workout?

I see progression levels as progressing through workouts. Whereas TSS and FTP handle how much work you did.

This post from TR is useful:

Unstructured outdoor rides and adaptive training/progresssion

Let’s take a closer look at your group ride and the workout you associated with it. Your group ride [Screen Shot 2022-05-23 at 10.35.14 AM] McKinley (the workout you used for association) [Screen Shot 2022-05-23 at 10.34.53 AM] McKinley is a 2hr30min workout with 5x1 VO2 followed by 2hrs of Sweetspot and high-Tempo. Due to all of the continuous time in high-Tempo and Sweetspot, it is classified as an 11.3 Sweetspot workout (wowza!). Time in Zone from McKinley Coasting: 0 (0%) Z1: 19min…