There’s a bug on this, we know the issue and it’s being published now. Sorry about that.
Should be ready in an hour or so.
EDIT: It’s FIXED!
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I enabled red light green light recently. Very cool feature and thanks for building it 
My recent calendar has yellow days, but they fall on the rest days only after my workouts:
This is fine, right? I’m not working out on those yellow days and the yellow only covers one day. This isn’t a sign that I need to scale back, just that the workouts have been taxing. Is that the correct way to interpret it?
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Then does RLGL take into account what the next week’s training looks like to decide on adaptions? That is: if tomorrow is a red day, but the rest of the week is a recovery week, would the recommended adaption differ than if tomorrow is a red day but the rest of the week is a build week?
Should be fixed! Sorry about that.
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Works, thank you!
Yes! That’s great! That’s a sign that you’re increasing your volume but also doing it in a good manner.
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Phew! Thanks
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No, right now the recovery week would assume that you’re within normal bounds and need normal recovery.
Training on a red day would require extra recovery than normal. So you’d be deviating from the plan. It’s also hard for us to know just how much of a hole you’d put yourself into.
I think an acception to this rule would be you have a red day before a 6 day beach vacation or something liek that. Where you can truly rest more than normal.
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Great addition.
Before I turn on “aggressive mode” will TR learn that I’m okay over time? I presume not if it’s analysed my history already.
Think I’m going to work with default and my training over the last three weeks of build before changing the settings. I suspect it’s always going to consider my bike/swim/bike days as too much work. But maybe it’s right.
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Next week is the last week of the 3rd base block on MV Master’s. Before RLGL, I moved my Saturday threshold workout to Friday (so Tues VO2max, W/Th endurance for 4 days in a row) because of 4 days without any workouts at all and then only 3 scheduled recovery workouts. I’m planning on doing it no matter what, but would already having 4 off-days be accounted for, or am I likely to get a red light no matter what?
Same race, the same basic color pattern. As an amateur cyclist, do you think it’s possible to do an event like BCBR and not be in the red part way through the week? It does seem like you did a lot of intensity right before the race. Anyway, I definitely wasn’t checking my TR calendar during the race - I knew I was suffering by day 3. I see this is a great training aid though.
@Nate_Pearson I really appreciate this feature and quickly put the slider all the way to the right since I am doing increased volume relative to my training history. It has been working out and I have been able to recover properly.
With that being said I feel like the conversative, balanced, and aggressive descriptors along with the “do you priortize recovery or can you mange burnout” blurb could be too ambigious for a user to decide. I do wonder if there is any way we could somehow make it a more objective calculus for the user to decide how they should set training approach.
Without knowing what gets fed into the RLGL computation I do wonder if prompts like the following could be helpful:
“If you plan to do x TSS per week, do x training approach”
“If you plan to do x hours per week, do x training approach”
“If you plan to do x days of intervals, do x training approach”
I understand that RLGL might ultimately not work in a way where a user could decide the training approach based on a number or a range of numbers. But any more direction or guidance on which approach to pick would be much appreciated.
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Per Nate in response to my similar question, RLGL doesn’t take into account your future workout schedule when determining its rating of a specific day.
So said another way: you very well could have one or more of the work days you are planning scored as red
That’s what I wasn’t clear about–whether there’s a difference in how it would interpret a subsequent recovery week
vs 3-4-5 or more days where there was nothing at all scheduled (which could be considered “extra recovery than normal”
Nice times!
No I don’t, and Nate/TR have since incorporated the stage race context in guidance for what actions make sense from RLGL.
Yep I definitely had high activity levels before the race as my main draw card for this international trip was Squamish and coast /island, rather than the interior where my Covid deferred ticket was valid for. No regrets, it was all rad and my performance was surprisingly good.
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This is not totally true. I did a workout and it turned the next day RED. I declined the adaptation and a few hours later the next day was YELLOW.
I recently started adding more volume now that work has calmed down, so maybe the recent change effected it. 
RLGL is still in beta. Those of us using it are testing a feature that’s still in development. Expect some weird shit to happen before it goes to full release. It’s possible that some back-end changes/refinements had been made between those two moments & contributed to the change in recommendation. You’re probably on the cusp of red/yellow in this situation.
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That’s an error/bug and should be reported to TR support. RLGL should not change from Red to Yellow over a few hours.
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I’d say you must have been pretty well prepared if after 3 consecutive red days a >2 hour >100TSS stage 5 was considered easy enough by the algorithm to drop you back to yellow for stage 6!
Looking back at my training camps and stage races, once I’m into the red I don’t come back out of it until I’m finished and have a day off.
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