Hi Crouch83,
Thanks for your reply. I did see and use the List view option. However, that is not the functionality I was referring to. On the Workouts page, there used to be a “Difficulty Level” filter option between the “Zones” and “Workout Levels” filter options on the left-hand side of the screen. That option is no longer there. See below.
Any idea why this was removed?
Regards
Morten V
You’re right. I hadn’t noticed that was gone. That is/was very convenient.
The new system is much better than the old progression levels at assessing difficulty.
Just take the AI recommended workout and look for harder/easier workouts if you want one. You’ll even get a very informed probability of how you would rate each ride. I can’t imagine a better way to do it. The old way referenced PLs which more often than not don’t accurately reflect your current abilities.
If the workout type you’re looking for isn’t on your calendar for the day just drag one from the future to today and you’ll get an updated AI recommended workout and you can go harder or easier from there.
What would be nice is the ability to fine tune the workout type to get an AI recommendation. Right now, I don’t think there’s a way to change from over-unders to sustained intervals to hard starts for example. Or to get an anaerobic recommendation if there isn’t one on your calendar at all. I guess you could refresh TrainNow until the right zone shows up and go from there.
¤ Grabs the popcorn to see how it copes with an 8-day work cycle like the 4-day-on,-4-day-off system that some industries use ¤
You could schedule it as a workout on Today’s date. Then you can pick whatever type you want.
That’s good to know. Will it give you survey probabilities once it’s on the calendar? I guess you could match up the response probabilities with something the AI recommends. But it won’t adapt it to an AI recommendation unless it’s part of a plan, right?
I have a 3 week cycle:
Wk 1 Monday Tuesday off
Wk2 Weds Thurs off
Wk 3 Fri Sat off
So I get a five day long weekend every three weeks when that wraps around, but I sometimes end up working seven days in a row because I’m rostered to work a Sunday every 5 weeks or so on top.
It makes scheduling workouts … interesting.
I was driving buses for a while. Casual & some on-call, split shifts (morning peak + afternoon peak) & straight-throughs… that was interesting too. Work was all over the place & therefore my workouts were too as I shifted them around every week to fit. I got used to gauging my own fatigue, but often bit off more than I could chew. 
Now at a desk job M/T/T/F, so much easier to plan.
It doesn’t need to be part of a plan to adapt. You could create your own plan using the scheduled AI workouts and it will adapt. That may be my plan in the fall during NICA season. Build some structure around practice with the kids.
Think the new planning approach is working well, I do have a request (particularly with the upcoming feature @Jonathan mentioned on the podcast about pushing workouts outdoor that were planned over a certain duration) and that is to have a minimum duration for Solo and Group rides.
I do a Group ride each Saturday and I have scheduled it to be Dynamic Endurance so TR will use it to help to prepare me for my long duration A event (gradually increase the duration).
I do a Structured Indoor Endurance ride on the Friday and again it is scheduled it to be Dynamic Endurance but what happens is TR increases the Indoor ride and decreases the outdoor ride (below what my normal Group ride would be).
I don’t want to over train so really need the AI engine to take account of the minimum duration for the Group ride before it suggests an increased ride on the Friday.
It’s definitely hard to increase the duration of one workout to a really long ride, while not compromising the workout the next day.
Pushing that long ride out on Fridays will eventually start to eat into what you should do on Saturday.
Is there another day of the week that you could move that long ride to instead of Friday?
I think what he is asking is to not increase the duration of Friday’s ride until after Saturday’s is increased. A way to prioritize Saturday over Friday.
He is asking for a feedback loop.
Indeed, ideally would to keep the Saturday as the priority ride for the Dynamic Endurance and let TR AI keep increasing its duration but also adjust the Friday ride to fill any gaps.
Ahh.
Well, there’s probably not going to be a time when it’s ideal to have two long workouts back-to-back.
In that case, I’d use Saturday as a Dynamic Endurance day and just set Friday to have a max duration of whatever you think is fitting for the day before a long ride in your schedule.
In that case, we won’t always schedule something that meets your max duration. We’ll ensure that you’ve worked up to it, so it works similarly.
Again, if you’re on a plan that gives you the option for two dynamic endurance rides, it’s best not to have them back-to-back. I’d put the Easy Ride on Friday and set the cap to where you want us to cut things off.
If you run out of productive workouts at that duration, and you have Workout Extension enabled, we’ll show you what the most productive workout is for that day, regardless of duration, and you can make the call as to which to do.
OK, can see how what you would propose works. I do not know about the feature you mention enabling “Workout Extension”. Where is this set?
Ahh. Got it, yes I have that enabled. Will move forward as suggested, however would still like the concept thought about as a feature as given the addition of the feature @Jonathan mentioned in the podcast where rides are auto pushed to Outdoor the work around you have described may not work.
Hi…
No doubt that TrainerRoad has developed an amazing AI solution, which is forged by tons of rides and perfected via data analysis, etc., etc. However, my issue is that a piece of functionality that was super useful has been removed.
My question to TrainerRoad is: Is it possible to get this filter back?
Regards M
I would like to see the rating scale change. There are times when a ride is neither moderate or hard, or easy and moderate.
Feature Request: Weather Forecast integration for calendar view.
Take my current location, add the low temp, high temp, precip % from a 10 day forecast datasource to the calendar. In a world where you have good weather data, put toggles in settings for other data points like sunrise, sundown, avg wind direction, etc.
