Time to switch to Masters?
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i’ll see what doing so does following next weeks rest week. I am in a bit of hole now tbh.
pred ftp always ends up decreasing
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Or self regulate your Thursday workout slightly easier.
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I thought tr ai would recognise my struggles and adapt accordingly. I’m not decrying it btw but just wondering if this should be something it should recognise. I do a load of extra stuff. Like walking and gym (albeit nothing intense!!)
My personal experience is that feeding it things like walks, light strength/stretching/yoga/etc can create issues.
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Yeah check my calendar if you want. It’s public.
I’m not trying to hide my secrets 
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Yes. This. I avoid feeding it anything except for comparable endurance training and dedicated leg lifting, and I often forget to do that without issue.
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I think it may over time. I’ve noticed that my Thursday workouts are often easier than my Tuesday. It’s not always the case though. I think as we continue to rate it accurately it should get better.
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Yeah. I don’t think I could handle looking at that! That should be what a Starve or Garmin calendar looks like, not TR.
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On the 1th of February I rated a threshold workout Blackcap Very Hard but was able to complete it, this shifted my threshold workouts for the month and Cloudripper -2 was on the plan today.
This one was riding the line between Hard and Very Hard rating but in the end it was mostly hard, I know I had another interval in me. My only surprise was that this workout triggered a Red day.
With the update I feel the AIFTP change has been fine so far. When I was excepted into the Beta I was on my end of season break with three weeks off the bike so I don’t know if the drop in AIFTP was because of the break or update but it’s been working so far.
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I have Wheel -2 for my over under tomorrow, although I also had Wheel -2 for my over under on Jan 29th. My FTP has gone up a few watts since then. I rated it Very Hard last time.
It’s showing that a slightly harder alternate is Cloudripper -2. The bookends are harder but the rest between intervals is longer and easier..
I’m not big on swapping workouts, but I have also been thinking lately that I don’t think I’ve ever failed at TR workout, prescribed by TR or myself. I feel my FTP is usually reasonably spec’d but my workouts have always been doable.
Do I pull the trigger for Cloudripper or keep on the scheduled path……….
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For me, what makes the Cloudripper rides much harder is that the before and after are done mid-Tempo, where the Wheel ones are high Z2. I find that final long Tempo interval harder to work though.
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Stay On Target! 
In know PLs aren’t so important anymore but. Is anyone seeing a gradual progression of threshold PLs?
I got my 239 four weeks ago, the next thresholds were;
Blackcap 3.7 wk1
Harding 4.1 wk2
Endurance wk3 (recovery week)
Fang Mountain 4.1 wk4 (in two days)
My verification ride seems to be Mount Baldy +4, which is a WL 5.1 threshold workout with 6x10-minute intervals at 95-99%. Seeing as I got a 7.1% AIFTP increase and my previous threshold workout was a 4.9 workout, it seems a tad excessive. It’s also 17 watts above my 6 week best 10 minute power.
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not mine, but that might have to do with the way we rate them? I’ve been wondering about this, with AIFTP resetting every 28 days and tying you back to a TH 3.x, will we every see much progression in zone?
My current prediction is 1 watt in 2 weeks. I’m ok with that because I’ve felt like mine might be a little high, and I’m a little tired (due to both training and general life stress (I’m selling house and moving 1,000 miles away)), so I might decline it and use it as an opportunity to see if it extends my TiZ.
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I haven’t seen a bump in threshold PLs either, but that’s probably due to rating workouts VH due to the fact that losing 6 pounds since the latest launch has made them VH. So seeing no W progression, only W/kg progression.
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Wasn’t as hard as I was expecting, felt like I could’ve done two more intervals. Toyed with the idea of marking it Moderate but.
I gained two predicted Watts. Rated it Moderate. Gained another Watt. Rated it Hard, now I’ve only gained 1 phantom Watt
Fingers crossed for tomorrow.
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Finally had this in my calendar today, looks like I wrecked it by doing a vo2 max run session this morning as it’s become:
Pushed it to tomorrow and not quite the same…
I’ve posted some issues with changing it from Kennedy -1 so ended up going with it, and my prediction has dropped anyway
So I’ll spend the rest of the day concocting a plan that restores me from 257 to my 263 or even the original 267!
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