A couple years ago they were talking about a red light green light feature, which they said would solve the static part of the plan. Haven’t heard anything about it since.
This is really helpful information. It doesn’t care if two threshold sessions a week is killing me, it’ll presumably just adjust down the next threshold workout but won’t suggest an endurance ride instead.
You guys have giving me some things to think about. I’m going to can the second threshold and put a good long endurance ride in there, and I might even kill the SS one as well since TR wants me to do it on Saturdays anyway and a long outdoor endurance ride is better suited to that for me.
Then I’d just have vo2 Monday and Threshold Fridays, maybe SS Saturday, with one rest day. Probably amount to about 10 hours. I guess this is why they say AI can’t replace a real coach.
Awesome! @jsiegrist Stay in touch and let me know how things go moving forward. If you have any questions or concerns along the way, just shout, and we can help you out. 
it would probably help you at the very least to drop the sweet spot day and do endurance. despite TR’s insistence, sweet spot is intensity, and 4 days of intensity in a week is a lot
They do. People don’t follow them though.
TLDR; My plan ended and I did recovery rides between races, but apparently too much of it.
Long winded version:
In my case, the A race in question was a triathlon. it definitely took a lot out of me, but I felt good enough to get back on the bike after 3 full rest days of no riding at all. My plan finished with the A race, so the week following there wasn’t anything on the calendar because I wasn’t on a “plan” any more. I did a somewhat mild SS workout followed by really easy endurance for the rest of the week with a total of only 5 hours, so I do feel like I recovered pretty well.
Some of my problem is that I had an XC race two weeks later, which I took 2nd place in so I must not have been too fatigued, but I went deep for that one too.
Then of course, I got sick becuase I had pushed too deep and for too long.
The advice given in this thread is well taken, and Im going to make some changes and see how things go. TR has been a great tool for me so far and I hope to keep growing with it even if I have to make some adjustments along the way.
I do think for someone like me who is prone to push through in order to check the workouts off the calendar some more or better guidance in app would have helped me without having to resort to the forum for help. I know they say don’t hesitate to change the workouts and to take rest days, but I’m never sure when the fatigue I feel is normal, or it’s too much.
Similarly, when I started I had no idea how intense threshold should be vs Vo2 max. It’s not something I can ever recall being covered in app, and only learned that by turning to other sources.
Now I’m at a place where I can’t tell if my problems stem from too much accumulated fatigue or if AI ftp just has me set way too high. Probably both in my case.
I think I’m on the right track now. TR just requires a little more of my own input than I thought given the mantra of just follow the plan.