# Is it just me or has the red/yellow bacome incresingly aggressive lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** TrainerRoad Software\ **Created:** [April 10, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134 "2026-04-10T15:07:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nene](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/nene/32/120214_2.png) [@nene](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/nene)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 3:07pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/1 "2026-04-10T15:07:52Z")
A few months ago my weeks in TrainerRoad calendar tended to look like this (with an occasional yellow days thrown in here and there): ![Screenshot 2026-04-10 at 17.04.36](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/3/d/3d5d365991da039ebd6839bf816c055e3161ce08.jpeg) But lately my weeks look more like yellow-yellow-red-yellow-red: ![Screenshot 2026-04-10 at 17.05.48](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/original/3X/b/3/b3e0ae550374b26144f683c5b470b07ecc27ae3e.jpeg) For comparison - Sunday Zwift race in the first screenshot → result yellow day - Sunday endurance ride in the second screenshot → result red day It just doesn’t align at all with how I actually felt after these days. The only time I actually felt that a red day aligned with how I felt was the red day on last Saturday. I really wasted myself on Friday, so I did a super easy ride on Saturday just to spin the legs a bit. And then next day I felt pretty good again. I scrolled my calendar to the past to see where the red days happened last year: - after doing 25 x zwift volcano circuit - after helf-everesting - after everesting - after first 5-hour outdoor ride in the early spring - after a normal road race - after 12 hour race - after 24 hour race - etc These were all pretty solid efforts. It’s a far cry from how normal endurance rides now tend to trigger red days. Today again is a red day. I don’t know why. I feel completely fresh. The only reason that I’m not going out for a long ride today is to save my legs for the hard intervals tomorrow. Perhaps the red days are now also accounting for that? The other reason I can attribute this to is that I’ve been gradually increasing my volume. But it’s really nothing different compared to past years. Technically my volume is up compared to last year, but that’s largely because I did a 10-day training camp. Besides that it’s really pretty much the same. ---
**Author:** ![huges84](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/huges84/32/132176_2.png) [@huges84](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/huges84)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/2 "2026-04-10T17:07:27Z")
> [@nene](#): > > The other reason I can attribute this to is that I’ve been gradually increasing my volume. But it’s really nothing different compared to past years. Technically my volume is up compared to last year, but that’s largely because I did a 10-day training camp. Besides that it’s really pretty much the same. That’s it right there. TR’s RLGL is very similar to looking at ramp rate of CTL, AKA a fitness and freshness chart. So similar to looking at the past seven day’s TSS vs the last 6 weeks avg. By both ramping up general volume and having a big loading week, you’re carrying recent fatigue. You body might handle that fine in the short term, or after it’s adjusted to higher volume. But you have to build up to it or this is what you’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![nene](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/nene/32/120214_2.png) [@nene](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/nene)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/3 "2026-04-10T20:00:22Z")
One possible variable is that in this training camp that I did, I did not have a power meter. If I would have had one, I’m pretty sure TrainerRoad would have pretty much labeled all these 10 days as red (or nearly all). I have no idea how it interpreted these ten days. Perhaps it concluded that I spent these 10 days lying on the sofa, although I did like 3x my average weekly volume. I marked the whole thing in my calendar as a stage race, but I think this probably didn’t have any effect whatsoever. If TrainerRoad completely ignores these 10 days, then from his perspective it’s like I eased off a bit, then took 10 days off, and then rode a week easy. So my fitness must have decresed as a result. Hmm… I think that’s just what it thought, because right after this block it decided to lower my FTP. But that’s just one possible interpretation. Perhaps it actually thought the opposite: I had been overdoing it and therefore my fitness went down? I suspect the former, but I guess there’s no way of really knowing. ---
**Author:** ![LacticacidMCB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/lacticacidmcb/32/167517_2.png) [@LacticacidMCB](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/LacticacidMCB)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/4 "2026-04-10T20:15:23Z")
Did you have a HRM for the training camp? Or ratecthe days at all? You should be able to see the load in the TSS chart. ---
**Author:** ![nene](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/nene/32/120214_2.png) [@nene](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/nene)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/5 "2026-04-10T21:44:34Z")
I did have a heart rate monitor. I’m not sure what you mean by ratecthe. The TSS chart tells me: planned 977 TSS, actual 0 TSS. ---
**Author:** ![LacticacidMCB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/lacticacidmcb/32/167517_2.png) [@LacticacidMCB](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/LacticacidMCB)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2026, 11:25pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/6 "2026-04-10T23:25:32Z")
Rate the. C was supposed to be the space. Did you add the RPE. Surprised if you had HR data that it didn’t show any TSS. ---
**Author:** ![nene](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/nene/32/120214_2.png) [@nene](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/nene)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 6:17am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/7 "2026-04-11T06:17:11Z")
Indeed I did not rate the RPE of these rides. I just completely unplugged for the duration of this whole thing and just enjoyed riding the bike. ---
**Author:** ![LacticacidMCB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/lacticacidmcb/32/167517_2.png) [@LacticacidMCB](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/LacticacidMCB)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/8 "2026-04-11T12:09:02Z")
Probably explains the yellow and reds though. ---
**Author:** ![agk8624](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/agk8624/32/163120_2.png) [@agk8624](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/agk8624)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 2:28pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/9 "2026-04-11T14:28:32Z")
There is a TSS Estimation feature for rides without power data - it’s in the account settings. If you haven’t done it already, I would turn it on, and let it do calculations for previous rides. Just need your max HR while cycling. ---
**Author:** ![JoeX](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/joex/32/6640_2.png) [@JoeX](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/JoeX)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 3:09pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/10 "2026-04-11T15:09:41Z")
I had 8 red days in Feb, 1 in March, none predicted in April How consistent are you in sticking to the plan? > [@nene](#): > > It just doesn’t align at all with how I actually felt after these days. This could be useful signal or it could just be that you aren’t aware of load, like me. Or you think you can benefit from much more than you need. ---
**Author:** ![nene](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/nene/32/120214_2.png) [@nene](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/nene)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/11 "2026-04-11T16:59:05Z")
Oh, cool. Thanks for the tip. I turned the TSS Estimation on. Perhaps it’ll change things. I guess I’ll have to wait a while before it takes effect on all my past rides. ---
**Author:** ![nene](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/nene/32/120214_2.png) [@nene](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/nene)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/is-it-just-me-or-has-the-red-yellow-bacome-incresingly-aggressive-lately/113134/12 "2026-04-11T17:19:41Z")
I think it worked. My training camp days now all show up in bright burning red 😃 And after that there’s now only a single red day in my calendar. Which came after the first long early-spring ride (preceded by a day with some hard intervals), perfectly aligning with my pattern from the last year. Thanks a lot @agk8624 !