So I’m looking to start a TR program for the first time. I ride indoors (with a kickr core) and outside (with no power meter) . Once a plan is provided everything is fine as long as I stay on the kickr. But what happens if I put in a 3 hour ride outside. Am I able to upload a ride from my wahoo bolt…

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If you ride outside (without TR) then the ride will sync to your TR Calendar and you can edit the ride (in the calendar) to input a perceived effort. From that input TR will create a TSS score for that ride which you can have contribute to your weekly training tss. But it won’t adjust your workouts …

Will the RPE workout be pushed to my head unit so I have prompts?

That does, thanks. Will the RPE workout be pushed to my head unit so I have prompts during my ride?

I am not sure about the interface on the head unit when you choose the RPE option. Maybe @bryce can tell us or point us in the right direction.

If anyone knows, that would be great. Would be the difference between trying and not.

Try it. One month money back guarantee. What’s to loose?

just the hassle of setting everything up, going outside for a ride and realizing the workout doesn’t go to my head unit and then going through the hassle of getting my money back.

It will display watt targets but no RPE. I do my training outside and based on RPE. Usually I go through the whole workout beforehand so I know what I am supposed to do. But if I forget what’s up next the watt targets is pretty easy to translate into RPE.

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