As a LV Masters athlete who’s slowly creeping towards MV, I’m surprised by the number of red and yellow days I’m seeing on my calendar looking backwards. Although, the scoring seems very consistent with many of the tougher workouts I’ve completed since Jan 1.
Side note - After repeated explanation, I understand that this is NOT simply TR’s version of WHOOP’s recovery score. But a quick scan between the two doesn’t indicate strong correlation between Recovery and RLGL.
I’m very intrigued by all this. Now please excuse me while I resume trying to overload myself. Lol.
In my case, I’ve known that I push too hard and tip my own apple cart over way too frequently. It is something I’ve been trying to manage better, but I can now look at my calendar full of yellow and red and know I need this feature more than most. As a masters athlete that is 15 months into structured training, I truly need and value the RLGL guidance.
I have protanomaly so I can see these shades decently - but I’m sensitive to color schemes dependent on yellows/reds in particular so I recognize this as something that could cause problems. In particular, text tends to challenging to read on yellow/green backgrounds for me (excel problem mostly)
Appreciate this - but I think (honestly can’t tell, they are harder for me to spot than the color of the days) the icons are also red. Maybe something with a higher contrast?
On a separate note - haven’t looked in detail, but I have about what I expect from.red/yellow days over the last several years (many many yellow days, very low single digit red days). I’ll need to dig in to earlier training to see how it dealt with years where I felt I was over-training. Nice to know the system agrees with my own experience and body responses to my typical weekly TSS of 900-1000.
Sharing for anyone else having issues. That version I posted above was an older version of the app. Support had me delete and reinstall the app. It works now.
Yesterday and today I am total drained and can’t train, I just know myself to take time off, lack of sleep etc… but no red light detected this. I actually switched my week to a recovery week because I knew id pay the price if I kept to my plan, I got the normal yellow light for Monday.
Indeed. This requires consideration of the data that TR actually receives (good but limited, really) and ALL the other stuff TR will not have access to related to IRL stress & pending illness to name a few.
RLGL is interesting and likely beneficial, but it’s not “all seeing & all knowing”, so we still have to run the tiller for the stuff TR doesn’t know.
To that end, I hit a bit of a slump recently that RLGL had no idea about and I was “in the green” after returning from a recovery week. What happened was a mess of two incomplete workouts on my part. Based upon that, I have reset my plan (twice now) as a result of what I know vs the limited info TR has in hand.
All 3 unfortunately, awake at 3:30 every night lately can’t get back to sleep even when I’m knackered tired. Struggled on Saturday threshold and only did 1:30 of 2h endurance on Sunday. Decided I’m going to burn out if I continue so taking a week off with just light ride if I feel up for it.
Its interesting but a few years late for me. It confirms how I learned to pace myself. I never ride on a red day…unless it is the last day of a weeklong cycling trip in a foreign country. Mondays in the summer are Red days…had 9 Mondays in a row last year. Obviously my Sunday rides are longer and harder then any other day.
You just did a three week block and you should have a recovery week this week. Looks like you started the new plan without having a recovery week first.
You trained on a red day a week before and then have been consistent since then. That makes sense that you’re tired now.