I was thinking about the same thing last week. I was at 10k+ feet for about a week recently and had an AIFTP detection that was very low the following week. I have no idea how much the altitude contributed (I was also coming off taper, my “A” race, and a little rest after). But AIFTP had previously been overestimating my FTP by 10-20+ watts and this estimate came in about 15 watts lower than my physiological FTP. It was a ~30 watt drop from my last AIFTP estimate in the last month (a month where I was at peak fitness for my A race). I expect a little drop after the taper and big race effort, but the 30 watt drop is way off and I wonder if the time at altitude contributed. If just looking at my HR vs. watts from my time at altitude, I’m sure it wasn’t pretty without the context of extreme elevation. I actually adjusted my FTP manually in intervals.icu to keep my training load and ramp rates appropriate, but I have no idea how to manage it in TR. I mainly use TR as a workout catalog and calendar, so not a significant impact on my training, but it would be nice if there was a way to manage time at altitude.
I think that’s a great idea.
When you’re preparing for a long race, it would be great if TR could suggest long ride outdoors in the program (I don’t believe 1h - 1h30 trainings on a home trainer are enough to prepare for a 6-7 hour long race for example) Also near the end of a training program, TR could suggest a pacing strategy. I usually do this based on my Zones based on the FTP… but with the AI FTP I’m lost now as I believe the AI FTP is too high for me, but I don’t know by how much. As I only do a few long races every year, I do not have the ‘luxury’ to try a pacing and adapt it in next race if it does not work.
I’d like to see if a scheduled workout has already been done previously within the calendar. For example, if Mount Kilamanjaro is the workout, would like the ability to see if it had been done before and select it to see the stats.
It would be nice to see the workout progressions and also filter the power curves for each type of workout for example sweet spot, threshold, etc.
By workout progression I mean a screen that shows I’ve done a 4x10 threshold at x% ftp. Scheduled in the future is 3x15 threshold, 2x20 threshold and so on. If I rated a workout as very hard or all out then I should see it maybe repeating that workout the following week.
I find it so tough to track the workout progression in TR even with the power curves.
It’s possible to do it this way, but it’s a bit of a PITA. What would make it infinitely more valuable would be if it was an option on the power curve automatically.
Thanks @eddie , it takes a few steps to do, but it’s a good way to reference my previous workouts so it’ll do.
Can we have a spider diagram on the homepage to show current power levels from past 6 weeks plotted against past quarter or current year or custom date range. The Strava one is really good, easy to understand and gives such an easy way to visualise current performance rather than a single FTP number. Like the power curve for individual workouts but the spider is really good for that quick check
I may have missed some comments and maybe this has been asked for before.
Obviously consistency is key, but I think even a ‘normal’ unstructured ride must give some benefit.. so wouldn’t it be great if TR AI gave some commentary at the end of a ride? E.g, ‘good ride, you got some benefit.. you did this well.. ‘ etc etc
That would be pretty cool
It would have to be better than any other company that has tried this, because so far, they’ve all been pretty crap. I imagine that’s why they haven’t done it, because if you are familiar with Strava’s feedback, it was laughable when they tried. I have more confidence in TR to do it, but I imagine it’s much more difficult to make it meaningful and they’d rather fix their algorithm right now.
Hopefully a benefit, but it could be detrimental to achieving the plan objective. Either way, some post-ride analysis would be good in helping decide what I might emphasize or change in future unstructured rides.
Yep I think that would also be good.
Maybe AI could say.. the ride benefitted you this way, but was detrimental in this way..
Imagine that.. that would be amazing
I searched the forum without finding much, and didn’t want to create a new post that could clutter the forum, but I would find it incredibly beneficial to be able to create plans based on desired weekly volume/TSS.
Say that I have 15 hours on average per week that I am available to train, or that I want to create a plan with an average weekly TSS of 750, I would love to be able to insert that into the plan builder so it can take that into account and create weekly workouts with total time or TSS in mind (deload weeks are less, and some weeks would be higher, so allow a user to create a time cap at 20 hours for example).
Currently, I am adding in additional workouts and will add on to my planned rides, but I thought this would be a nice addition since I am constantly changing and editing my plans that TR creates for me to add in more volume.
I’m at the point where I’d love to see more variety in the workouts. Maybe mixed interval sessions would be fun, but I never get fed those on my plan. Or at least something unexpected to change up the routine.
I want my C races TSS to be considered in advance instead of after the fact. It doesn’t make sense to me that my plan will have 300 TSS weeks and then a 425 TSS week due to a race and then it makes adjustments to the preceeding week because of the race. I understand it’s a C race, but I don’t agree with the software seemingly ignoring it all together until it has happened.
It also seems that TSS isn’t a great way of scoring the impact of a mtb race because of the dynamic nature of the riding. For example, if you ride a pump track for 30 minutes straight your legs will be destroyed but you’ll have pretty much zero TSS recorded because your power meter isn’t showing you putting power through with pedaling. The same is happening throughout mtb races. I can have a race absolutely destroy me and the next day doesn’t even show yellow.