In the last week I’ve noticed that my calendar is recommending recovery days, only to suddenly change it’s mind mere hours before the scheduled workout.
I check the calendar right before I go to bed, still a recovery day, so I make my plans for sleep, nutrition, work, etc. The next morning upon waking I see that the recovery day is gone and the regular workout has been re-instated. Unfortunately, I wasn’t prepared for the original workout so I am forced to go with the now non-recommended recovery session (usually for time reasons).
It’s only recently started doing this sudden bait-and-switch…am I alone in this experience?
I have only seen this happen when a planned workout was not executed.
I believe that TR Fatigue Mgmt will think you are going to execute up until midnight and the next day starts, so if you had a hard workout in the calendar and didn’t do it, might be worth moving or deleting before you hit the sack/hay/etc.
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Also, I’ve switched off automatic fatigue management anyway, I’m finding the response to non-cycling activities a bit extreme in some cases but it’s also made me re-assess how hard my HR gets too on easy days.
Interesting! I’ll keep my eye out for this. I generally don’t like to delete planned sessions, even if I do something as an alternative, because I want TR to know what I “didn’t do”. But now that I think more about it, I think TR just wants to know what I “did do” so it can plan ahead accordingly. I think you may be onto it, thanks for the insight.
In similar circumstances to yours, what I do is edit the workout I’m not going to do, and temporarily move it a few days into the future.
That way, you can see right now what the situation will be when that workout that you’re going to skip gets marked as having been skipped and TR stops assuming that you’re going to complete it.
Once you’ve established that you’re good to go, you can go back in and move it back in time to where it was before.
Yeah, you have to move it back before the day in question becomes yesterday.
So, let’s say I have workouts scheduled for the 4th and 5th of March. I’m going to do the 5th March workout as is, but on the 4th I’m going to do a different ride, but I want to leave the original workout in my calendar for the record.
Workflow:
On the morning of 4th March, pin the March 4th workout. You’ve now captured “what I was supposed to do". This workout must remain pinned.
Move the 4th March workout forward in time. 6th March will do, but you can move it all the way out of the simulation window if you want your prediction to not get messed up.
Do your March 4th ride. Rate it. Let the AI and fatigue detection do their thing. Your calendar (at this point) is “correct", and hopefully shows that you’re good to go for your March 5th workout.
Move the 4th March workout back to today (4th March). If you don’t associate it with the ride you just did, TR will now assume that you’re still going to do the workout and so your calendar (at this point) is “incorrect”.
As time ticks and March 4th turns into March 5th, TR will register that you’ve skipped the March 4th workout and your calendar will once again be “correct", and ready for you to do your March 5th workout.
