Pioneer -3 was in my plan again tonight but I decided to ‘Alternate’ it for another Endurance workout ‘Black’.
I don’t think I got it all out tonight on my bookended over/ under session, despite marking it as all out in the post ride survey. I tried electrolytes rather than my usual carb drink with caffeine thinking I’d be more tired for an early night but I feel more awake than ever. After marking it all out I got the fail survey so I put it down to nutrition. Another nutrition item was that the supermarket was out of bananas so I never got my pre ride banana sandwich.
Woke up this morning to quite beautiful weather and it was unseasonably warm.
Thinking about the latest commute/ workout thread and that I only had a recovery workout (Bald -1), I spent the whole day wishing I’d took better lights. More so at night when I got to the station to find that all the trains had been off for hours because of a medical emergency. Fortunately the train which was scheduled 30mins before the train I was wanting to get originally was 55 minutes late. So I wasn’t too late home, and whilst it had turned wet underfoot it was still unseasonably mild. So I thought I’d grab some lights and go out on the guarded commuter pictured above (and do the workout on RPE). A quick check of the Live Weather Radar convinced me otherwise though, it was about to turn very wet overhead. So trainer it was. I opted for a quick light set up which I can quickly dissemble and do tomorrows workout outside when I am WfH.
I won’t post the depressing screenshot, but I started a polarized plan this week and did a threshold workout 1.0 that had 5x3min vo2 efforts (Turquino). I survived the first three intervals, faded half way through the fourth interval, and started the last interval at threshold, faded to sweet spot, and clung onto tempo at the end.
I rated it Very Hard, but because it’s been 30 days, TR wanted to raise my FTP by 3 watts. I said Hell No! and kept it at my existing FTP level. Let a poor guy at least suffer through a month of threshold before trying to up my FTP.
EDIT - It’s been a minute since I’ve seen 180HR at my age!
EDIT 2- Should I have marked this as Fail since I didn’t complete the last interval at the prescribed effort? Or just leave it as Very Hard since I completed it, but at a reduced (and fading) power level? Hmmm.
EDIT 3 - I’m going to ping support and see why I’m getting all these Supra-threshold workouts to start the polarized plan. I feel like they should ease me in with some “easy” over-unders (easy compared to supra-threshold right out of the gate).
Anyway, sorry for my ramblings……carry on!
I’d mark things like that as an all out (or maximum effort), my reasoning I’d have to went all out to have had a chance at completing it. Rating a workout Very Hard which is supposed to be very hard I think the system sees that as a success.
Thanks @HLaB - I’ve got a ticket open with support that’s the first thing they recommended as well. I’ve made that change, but I’m not seeing the adaptations I was expecting.
Anyway, thanks again. I’m sure I’ll get it sorted with TR support. 
One of the TR feature requests that has long been asked for is to give a PL to workouts that could be associated with more than one zone. This is a good example.
I had the VO2max workout Gendarme+3 in my Calendar tonight and after marking it a ‘Maximum Effort‘ and some intervals where I was well below target, I was expecting a fail survey, which I was going to put down to injury. But I never got a fail. I’ve got a sore inside ankle, I either whacked it on my cranks out side or strained it using ERG (fighting the spiral of death or pulled up to too hard when the resistance automatically became zero after a max interval). So I done tonight’s session in Resistance mode. Tried using the +/- buttons in the first block but it was a bit of a failure when I tried to drink. The next block ran better when I used the shifters instead. Importantly the inside ankle never deteriorated.
Lol, without thinking I threw dinner in the oven, then remembered I had a workout to do. Thankfully it was only an Endurance workout (Echo -5) and I got away with only giving it 15minutes to settle. My other faux pa was forgetting to fill my bottle after last night’s session. An 1/8 of a bottle was right for the session though.
Remembered tonight to put off tea and fill the bottle and I needed it for tonight’s Threshold session (Asta) at least for the first 50minutes until I warmed up (it seemed more doable after that). I was also looking forward to my 
. Then I remembered what I forgot, Tinfoil for the oven tray. Doh, so it was a walk to the a local mini market to buy some and an oven meal which I’m currently waiting on.
AI FTP boosted me last weekend and after two ‘Very Hard’ workouts on Tuesday and Thursday I was supposed to do Izaak Walton -2 today…below my progression levels, should have been ‘Moderate’ at worst. Turned down intensity in the third over/under block, still failed it anyway. Lowered the intensity to 75% for the last over/under and failed that one too. Left the intensity down and did 50% FTP for almost the entire 15 minute endurance block after the last over/under and just decided to quit a few minutes early.
Lowered my FTP back to slightly below where it was before the AI FTP boost that I clearly did not deserve, am skipping my planned lifting session this afternoon, am debating skipping tomorrow’s endurance ride, and am once again musing on the idea that maybe despite the amount of effort I put in I will never be more than mediocre and anything I do. All in all, pretty great training day! 
Oof. 4 hours is a long time on a trainer. I was cooked after 105 minutes on Saturday. Sure you’re not dumping tons of power, but there just are NO BRAKES. It’s relentless.