How are you describing it in a critical way that makes me like it more?
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I was going to say “diarrhea brown”, but didn’t want to make the UI/UX devs mad, LOL!
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I mean either just makes me think of a 70s brown on tan benz wagon and i’m trying to not end up on cars and bids today.
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Yea, I grew up with a refrigerator that color.
OK, now I’ll stop with the off-topic silliness.
I’m sure this has been asked before but I didn’t see it in a cursory scroll up this thread: I noticed recently that in the calendar, hovering over the completed workouts shows the workout graph instead of the map:
Can we reverse that, and make the graph the default state, and the map on hover? At least for Zwift rides associated with a TR workout? I’d rather see that on the calendar than a map in the middle of nowhere.
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+1 billion
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Hi Trainerroad,
There used to be a “Difficulty Level” in the Workout filters area. This has disappeared.
This was really useful if/when one wanted to sort away all workouts that had a lower difficulty level than where one was currently at.
Now you have to first go to calendar and see what level you are at, and then manually find a workout that matches the difficulty you would like to do next. I would vote for bringing this feature back as it is super useful and time-saving.
Is there any reason why it was removed?
Regards
Morten V
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I believe what you’re looking for is still there, just a bit harder to find. Go to workouts and then select list in the top right.
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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.
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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.
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¤ 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 ¤
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You could schedule it as a workout on Today’s date. Then you can pick whatever type you want.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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