San Miguel for me tonight, unfortunately not but an Anaerobic workout. To celebrate getting another year older a few weeks back I lowered my max HR by 1bpm again (1bpm per year from what I was regularly maxing out at when racing TTs)
I was expecting TR to fail me because of the weird things going on with ERG. I made the mistake of jumping of the trainer in a recovery to tighten a skewer. When I jumped back on it ramped it up to a massive resistance. I expected it to fall as I got back to 40% FTP target but it never, it just kept on rising. So I switched to Resistance mode for a few seconds thinking that might reset it. So I switched back to Resistance mode for the last 4 or 5 minutes of the recovery. I switched ERG back on 5 seconds before the next anaerobic interval and the resistance automatically shot up again. Not a problem I thought as its supposed to be high but halfway through the interval the resistance dropped to zero. ERG seemed better after that but some of the intervals ghe resistance seemed to bottom out just below the target when I could have pushed a higher gear. After all that TR passed it.
It kinds like you’ve got your trainer’s power smoothing setting on (let me guess, Wahoo?). You really should turn that off because it’s lying about your actual power and the new AI models look at every watt of every workout, so it throws things off.
Second, what’s up with those big spikes in the rest intervals?
I was thinking this with my trainer also. I’ve been trying out the power readings and cadence from the trainer and comparing them to my powermeter, I have a Wahoo Kickr.
I have power smoothing turned off but it looks like it’s never 100% off more like smoothing lite.
I’ve been seeing the cleanest workout lines I’ve ever put out.
Yesterday’s ride apparently broke me. Finished up and noticed a bulge in my groin. Just back from Primary Care and it’s an inguinal hernia. Bad timing on my part as I was maxed out of pocket last year from surgery for a broken hand that was the result of a mountain bike crash My ribs were finally starting to feel ok and hand strength was back to where I’d trust myself mountain biking.
Mine is set to 5 second smoothing. I’ve had it set the same the whole time I’ve been on TR. my AI ftp is very close to irl and the rpe on all my workouts is consistent with the intended zones. My HR confirms as well as rpe.
I’ve had a lot of ai ftp detections over the last year and I believe it’s very close to accurate. Or at least it’s consistent with progress levels, tss, ctl, etc
the spikes are from standing up every 15 minutes or so. I don’t like riding out of the saddle at 150w
I’ll turn off the smoothing moving forward to see, but having the smoothing on is not lying to the ai. You’re still doing the same watts whether smoothing is on or off.
I don’t they are talking about the smoothing in TR but the smoothing the trainer applies, you need to go into the Wahoo app and turn the smoothing off, your graphs will then look very different.
Well, I decided to accept my shiny new FTP and run with it, even though I’m pretty sure it’s at least 15 watts north of my actual FTP right now. I’m in Masters Base, so instead of one Sweetspot workout and one Threshold workout, I’ll effectively be getting one Threshold workout and one Hoo Boy - I Hope You’re Ready For This workout. It’s only two workouts a week, and next week is recovery week, so how bad can it be?
Today was Taro, 2hrs with 68 minutes of high tempo / SS, so in effect 68 minutes of SS / Threshold.
Aye, my FTP number going from 220 (~10 to 15 low) to 251 (~15 to 20 high) is going to make things interesting when it comes to intervals close to whatever my actual FTP is. Especially as they’re all slated to be 2 hr rides.
Not a problem for endurance rides, VO2 Max, or Anaerobic work, though.
but an Anaerobic workout. To celebrate getting another year older a few weeks back I lowered my max HR by 1bpm again (1bpm per year from what I was regularly maxing out at when racing TTs)
80g of carbs per hour. Just 3 bpm HR drift. 
Today’s workout is Truchas -3 . I guess TR wants me to get familiar with that family of workouts.
