I’ve got two. Thinking I probably need to add a 2nd Lasko fan to improve evaporative cooling. Room doesn’t get great circulation so it’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Usually open windows to get additional air flow.
Taking formula 369 via 25oz bottles. Typically run 30G for endurance, 60-90 for sweet spot, threshold and VO2. Leaning closer to 90 as I’m nearing my events to train the gut. Have started going with 60g/bottle on my long Saturday endurance rides, usually have 2 bottles on those days and may have some solid food as well.
If your workouts are too hard, you need to tell us that. A “hard” or “very hard” rating for a threshold workout seems appropriate, but if you’re struggling to get through your workouts, then I’d rate them as “max effort.”
If your FTP drops down, that’s probably good. Then you’ll be able to progress to higher-level workouts with more sustained work, which it sounds like you’d benefit from.
No amount of cooling, fuel, or motivation will get you through workouts that are too hard week after week.
Also, keep in mind that each training zone is set independently, so even if your FTP drops, you can still have workouts in each zone that feel appropriate.
I went back and adjusted the last ride for max effort. Probably need to be a bit more honest when responding to the survey going forward. Should I go back and adjust the other ones as well to max effort?
Helpful to know that the different zones aren’t all linked which makes sense with the new system looking only at power.
Thanks! This is really helpful. The schedule you propose is actually the plan I have in mind. By the end of April I expect to drop to one strength session per week, and then I can add an endurance session back in. It’s also useful to see from your screen shots that the system is indeed adapting. It just felt like I was battling it the whole time.
Just wanted to share that my experience has been pretty good a couple weeks into the 2nd year. I had done a 3 month Rouvy base and coming off a long injury recovery. The detected FTP was lower than I had been training at on Rouvy, but I accepted and it’s given me a bunch of 7.x and 8.x workouts. Nice long intervals at a lower FTP, but building back my aerobic base which has been lagging a bit. Heart rate is coming back in line nicely and building a lot of confidence doing the long intervals.
Also would say the TR plan has been much better to ramp me up towards harder efforts than the Rouvy plan I selected, which every now and then would throw a random impossible workout at me. Every workout has felt achievable following proper rest/recovery.
A quick question: on 3/15 you did an almost 5 hour ride with a 247 TSS. A week later you did a 4.5 hour ride with a 20 TSS. Next week another 4+ hour ride with no TSS. All rides look to be outside. How do you explain the wide range of TSS? Something seems off and perhaps some of the yellow/red days are coming from incomplete data?
The power meter wasn’t working for a couple of rides. You’re right, that could be an issue too and it might be a matter of incomplete data. But I feel my battle with AI has been going on for longer than a couple of weeks.
I think a bigger issue with those rides are the fact that you are doing 4.5-5 hour rides when your schedule says 1 hour. Also, why aren’t you rating what is essentially your most consequential workout of the week?
Maybe I’ve got a mental block, but ran into a similar issue with today’s threshold workout. I meant to try today’s workout in TR instead of Zwift but got on autopilot and forgot.
The low cadence hard starts in ERG may have been a bad idea. They were fine until the last one and feel like I couldn’t get the cadence above 80rpm for the start of threshold portion which is not where I want to be with high power.
Hm, I guess I missed the memo. I joined before the system could take account of outdoor rides, and rating those used not to affect the calculations. I’ll rate those rides from now on!
