I’m never good about doing recovery rides. So I run TR and Zwift in parallel and let TR control my trainer in erg mode. It eliminates the need for me to be disciplined and lets me save that mental energy for other occasions and forces me to do an actual recovery ride. It was difficult riding up AdZ today at recovery pace and I probably would have gone too hard had I not put TR in control. As @Redrose49er mentioned, you can pick terrain that motivates you to help with the more challenging TR workouts. I also love climbing and will do harder workouts on AdZ and feel like I’m blasting up a climb.
Just to balance it out I have free rides built into my schedule that I either do outside or on zwift. When zwifting I can go solo, do group rides that fit with my current plan / goals, do fondos or races. All depends on what my goals are and what is available. You can also pick your own stupid goals for each ride. Doing a long, steady z2 ride? Equip that TT bike and see how much distance you can cover, earn that 25 lap volcano loop badge, climb towards that tron bike. Doing longer SST intervals? Do repeats of AdZ or Epic KOM and see how much climbing you can get in.
@mcneese.chad posted about a half-vEveresting ‘event’ this weekend. If the weather isn’t great outside I’ll give that a a go. I’m planning a long z2 ride anyway… That or I might knock out a solo zwift century.