Morning all, I’m another one back since the Zwift integration and I’ve set up a custom plan for the Fred Whitton (in May). I’ve done it last year with a time of just over 7 hours but I’m looking to go sub 7 this year. Question is regarding how the custom adaptive plan works long term. At the mome…

*Just found a couple of forum posts/ topics reference this (kind of)… would seem people are saying I can choose to do some more longer days (within reason) and see how the red light green light adapts and if I’m recovering well enough etc. I’ll keep an eye and update the post with findings over nex…

Absolutely. You can substitute for longer rides or do your own progression (I usually progress my weekend ride up to 3h indoors and then go longer outdoors, when the weather gets nicer). It shouldn‘t trigger red days, if the progression is sensible. TR said they are planning a progressive long ride…

Cheers for the reply, it has raised a question though. If the AI/ system knows I’m training for a ride that’s 100 mile with 11,000ft of climbing… are you saying that it’ll never prescribe a ride longer than 1 hour for endurance? I can’t get my head round that at all. Even a bog standard cookie cu…

TrainerRoad implements progressive overload only through intensity. So your rides will get progressively harder as time goes on, but the total volume will stay about the same. You need to manage the increase in volume by yourself by e.g. replacing your suggested workouts with longer alternates. And…

Ok I see what you’re saying, that just seems mad to me. I’ve just watched a youtube video with Chris Miller and they were talking about how advanced the AI is etc and will get you faster and it’s going to replace coaches (not exactly but you get my point), but in the same breath it prescribes 1 hou…

I think the larger problem here is with this term “AI”. It makes people expect too much. I totally agree that it would be awesome to have TrainerRoad suggest you increases in volume. On the other hand I acknowledge, that this is most certainly a way harder problem than it would look on the surface.…

Similar thread, including a response from TR, that you might find helpful [image] New user experience isn’t great TrainerRoad Software I’ve seen other posts from a few years back and it seems trainerroad isn’t setup for someone with some training under their belt. I am br…

Cheers, just had a good read through this. Seems to have got a bit heated in that thread. Take all the personal opinions and mud flinging out of the thread I think the core of it stands… For an AI driven training tool, and everything we know about the effects of zone1/2 training/ length of traini…

[image] MrHammonds: I’d expect to see endurance volume increase (through time rather than intensity)… and that being factored into plans that specifically deal with longer event times. Time is fixed and I agree with that, as amateur athletes it’s common that we set that constraint. I’d theori…

Let me start by saying I agree with you that long rides are important, just sharing so you have more context. In the distant past, the TR plans had longer rides on the weekend, but compliance was very poor, so they modified the plans (and added notes saying you could change the shorter rides to lon…

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