Previously in TrainerRoad calendar I was able to move workouts to the past, but this seems to be impossible now. I also can’t add a workout to past days any more.
For example with endurance workouts I often end up doing somewhat longer or shorter workout than TrainerRoad assigned to me on that day. Mostly it tends to be longer, as TrainerRoad has a tendency of giving me way too short endurance rides.
Or perhaps I decide that I’ll do tomorrows workout today and today’s workout tomorrow.
It’s especially annoying now that TrainerRoad workouts have become super adaptive and change fairly often. I look at the calender, see that tomorrow is 2 hours of endurance, then tomorrow I do it, but in the mean time the AI has decided that it gives me just 1 hour of endurance.
Or maybe it doesn’t matter which exact workout I did and the AI will just look at the power and duration and won’t really care which specific workout it was? I don’t know.
a ride during which workout A was done, linked to workout A
a ride during which workout A was done, linked to workout B
a ride during which workout A was done, not linked to any workout
Will these all be treated as completing workout A from trainerroad perspective?
Also, what if my power meter stops working and I do the workout by feel? (Trickier with intervals, but perfectly doable with an endurance ride.) How can I communicate to TrainerRoad that I actually did the workout and which workout it was?
The second option will be treated as completing workout B. You don’t need power to complete a workout outside. If you have a workout on your calendar that you perform outside you can link your ride file when you get home if it doesn’t happen automatically, whether it was done with power or not. If you just do an endurance ride and are not following a specific rides structure there is no value in trying to find the best workout that matches what you did when you get home, and you should not do that.
OK. That’s kind of what I’ve been thinking - it does matter which workout the ride is associated with.
So, let’s say I do a 2 hour TrainerRoad workout with intervals. But the intervals are surrounded by longer blocks of endurance. I decide to extend the endurance portion by half an hour.
Would I be better off disassociating this ride from the workout (because it’s no more the same as the original planned workout),
or would it be better if I still kept the workout association (because the intervals part was done as prescribed by the workout)?
I imagine that it really depends on how big the difference is between the original workout and the actual ride. Like if I do an extra 15 minutes of endurance riding, it doesn’t really make much difference, so I’m better off keeping the workout association. But if I do 2 hours more, it likely is a substantial difference. Or maybe not… because I still did the intervals part.
My main goal with using TrainerRoad is getting it to suggest me the intervals I should do. So if I can somehow provide it with better information regarding that, I’d like to do it. But when it comes to endurance rides, I only use TrainerRoad as a rough guide.
That’s at least what I do when training outside. If I did the intervals as prescribed I won’t disassociate the TR workout even though I did 30, 60 or even 120 minutes extra easy riding.
The only reason to match workouts is to keep your Athlete Levels accurate, but in reality those don’t matter because AI is only looking at the watts and heart rate when selecting your next workout.
Just wanted to chime in on this bit. You can always pin the workout if you would like it to remain the same. If it’s unpinned it will change to whatever the system thinks is the best workout that day to keep your training on track.
As far as matching workout, you will want to only match them if you’ve actually followed the prescribed instructions (even if you extend the warm up or cool down as you’ve followed the interval part).
Now I am not understanding why you’d want to move a workout to the past… If you missed a workout and did it the following day, then there is no need, nor you should move it to the past.
Well, a simple example is that I decide to swap the workouts. I know what’s today’s workout and I know tomorrow’s workout, and I decide on the fly for whatever reason (weather, schedule, life, etc) to do tomorrow’s workout today. So I do it… and when I get back home and immediately update the calendar, I can move the tomorrow’s workout to today. But when I forget to do it right after the ride and want to do it on the next day… I can’t accomplish this any more.