Workouts below current level negatively affecting progression

[Hampstenfan]

@trpnhntr

The flaw that I think you’ve hit upon is that PLs don’t update in real-time as they decay. They are only recalculated when you do a ride that touches on that PL (either as the primary or a secondary PL).

Therefore this appears to you as if riding Fletcher decreased your endurance PL, when really all it did was recalculate it based on what the system views as your current capabilities.

If TR recalculated all PLs on a nightly job for all users you’d likely have seen your endurance PL slowly decay in the interim from your prior 4.5 endurance level to something at 4.1 or below

@IvyAudrain, can you confirm if this is the case and if this is how it was supposed to work? On 10.24 I did an outside endurance ride associated with Gibbs 4.9 which bumped my PL the expected +.1 from the prev 4.8.

Did an endurance 2.6 on 10/26 with no change in PL, a threshold ride 10/19 (which gave an appropriate PL increase for that energy system) and an unstructure mtn bike biathlon ride 10/31. Another endurance 2.6 on 11/2, and then endurance 1.7 on 11/5, neither which saw any PL changes (btw, last week of POL BUILD looks like big time recovery workouts assigned) On 11/7 did a 4.1 endurance workout, and my PL then dropped to 4.1.

So, in two weeks following TA recommended workouts well below my endurance PL I had no changes, then a drop from 4.9 to 4.1 (which I only caught because something flashed about PLs being updated so I have no way to know what the update is – but there are other threads asking for PL history).

Big question is whether I’m seeing expected behavior, or something different.