TrainerRoad - Feature Requests of what athletes expect / want in the future

Thanks. Am on Mac OS. Interval start beeps work fine, but no other notification sounds.

I typically use iOS to run TR nowadays and get the countdown beeps, but when I’ve used my MacBook in the past, I’ve definitely gotten the 3, 2, 1 countdown beeps at the end of the workout, so this seems like maybe something to reach out to support about.

I got a fast and useful reply from TR support - kudos TR - and permission to just paste it here for clarification for this feature request…

Just to clarify, we’ve never actually implemented an audio notification for the end of workouts in our apps. I’m also a bit confused since these athletes are mentioning hearing one before, but as far as we know, that’s never been part of the apps. We’ve still been getting feature requests for this in the last year, so it seems it’s something that hasn’t yet been added. It really wouldn’t make sense that we implemented it years ago and then continued receiving requests for it afterward. I also checked through our release notes from the past few years, and there’s nothing indicating that this feature was ever introduced.

Right now, the only sounds available are for Instructional Text and the interval start beeps you’re already hearing.

That said, I completely understand how an end-of-workout sound would be helpful, especially if you’re running the app in the background and not actively looking at the screen. It would make it easier to know when your session is over without having to check manually.

It’s also possible that the chimes other athletes have mentioned are actually the same ones you’re hearing at the start of each interval, rather than an end-of-workout notification. That would explain the confusion.

I’ll go ahead and send this along as a feature request to our team so they can review it for future updates.

Haha that’s really weird. Somebody did something… I definitely get three descending beeps as a workout ends. Maybe Ivy did it on her way out…

maybe another good one would be self prescribing a yellow or red day. Sometimes i’m absolutely knackered due to any number of factors, health, sleep, training fatigue, inadequate fuelling the previous day etc. being able to mark out the calendar with a yellow/red day so TR adapts TN options and subsequent workouts to take this into account.

:sweat_smile: On which platform is your TR app running?

iPhone 13 mini with iOS 18.6.2

How about a button in the app where we can give @Jonathan a mild electric shock when he trolls us on the podcast?

I would like to get feedback from TR based on the results of my workouts and events.

I’d also like to see modifications to my taper/specialty weeks leading up to my events. For example, if the machine learning part of TR can see that I perform better with some fatigue as opposed to being too fresh, then I’d like that to be incorporated leading up to my A-events.

For example, I felt great at the end of my last build block. I did a recon ride up a 1 hour climb and felt really strong and had good numbers. The following week was a rest week, and I repeated the same climb during an event and the legs felt kinda weak. My numbers were lower - although I had a faster result due to riding in a pack and better weather. I’d like for TR to analyze this and then modify my plan leading up to my A-event. That would be very cool.

I’m pretty sure I’ve always gotten this since ~2019 when I first signed up. The sound changed slightly at one point, but I’ve always had 3 beeps at the end on MacOS and iOS.

Is everyone definitely talking about beeps at the end of a session - not the beeps between intervals.

I don’t have end of session beeps on PC

I get three descending beeps at the end of workouts on Apple Ipad.

Thanks to the feedback here, I can confirm that I get workout end beeps (the sad, drooping ones) on iOS, but nothing on MacOS. So it sounds like it’s more of a bug report than a feature request.

Three beeps for three seconds at the end for iOS. I wish it were 5 because sometimes I don’t remember to extend the workout until I hear those beeps.

Yep, I definitely get the end of workout beeps on the Android app.

A button for “please schedule a ramp test for me at the optimal time during my current training plan”

Clicking on the “Workout” elapsed time or the “Ends at…” time toggles to show the remaining time.

User story: a family member asks me how much longer will I be cycling for in the cellar, and I am running full screen on my desktop and so can’t see the current time and have to figure it out from the tiny workout progress bar. And anyway often just prefer to see 10 minutes to go.

A way to override tss when needed.

Such as when a power meter has connection issues

It just took me 15 minutes to figure out why I couldn’t find the “alternate” option for a workout. Because it was an outdoor ride. Now looking in the forum it looks like it has been asked before to be able to find alternates for outside workouts… Is there a reason this isn’t happening? Or at least add to the instruction page that “indoor” has to be selected :slight_smile:

I’ve just shared this with the team. Thanks for keeping this one alive!!