When I picked the name “TrainerRoad,” I liked the idea that the name has two meanings. There’s the physical “trainer” that you do your workouts on, then there’s the meaning that a “trainer” is someone who trains you. Today, we’re expanding from the indoor “trainer” world, and we’re going to start …

[image] rocourteau: The opposite would make you an outlier around here… true dat!

My Garmin TSS was always higher than TrainerRoad TSS for outside rides UNTIL I realized that a privacy zone I’d set in Strava was tricking TrainerRoad into thinking I’d ridden fewer miles than reality. You don’t have that going on do you @cyclhist ?

I’m not advocating for 1:1 inside:outside conversions. I think that’s unnecessary and slightly crazy. I’m trying to understand why so many indoor workouts have wildly varied alternate versions when it seems as if the original inside workout could port directly over to outside execution unaltered. A…

That would make sense, you basically vanish from the surface of the planet when you enter the privacy zone as far as Strava is concerned.

[image] robertbb: With the new Garmin API announced, will we have the option of pushing the indoor workouts to Edge head units as well or will this be limited to outdoor workouts? I’ve never really stuck to a plan shock horror but chosen individual workouts based on time/fatigue/weather. Will w…

[image] Asgerhj: But until then, could you maybe also work on audio cues from the phone app? Narrated by coach Chad of course :smile: There are no plans for audio queues (done by us) since we can now push workouts to Garmin and Wahoo.

[image] pgyates1983: Will it only be the Edge, or will we also be able to follow workouts on That’s a good question, I don’t know the answer. I’ll email Garmin and ask.

For that, they are both working VO2 Max. We have finer grain control to match low vo2max with traditional vo2max but that’s going to take a bit longer to do.

We don’t have plans to have multiple FTPs.

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Nate_Pearson April 12, 2019, 4:19pm 361

We haven’t decided this yet. As I said above we might have the same inside workout be available outside as well.
You can push piece meal workouts. This is just the beginning, we’ll expand the option for outside only workouts scheduled on the calendar.
Not right now. We’re rebuilding the workout creator and I can see this being part of that.

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