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So I asked TrainerRoad support, they said adaptive training always aims for the Productive workout. Since both of those are considered "Stretches" it knocks it down a peg and suggests I do something easier. F THAT NOISE
 
Pearl said:
So I asked TrainerRoad support, they said adaptive training always aims for the Productive workout. Since both of those are considered "Stretches" it knocks it down a peg and suggests I do something easier. F THAT NOISE
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Didn’t you say the TrainerRoad plans were too hard and burned you out? lol
 
Pearl said:
I should probably ask this on the TrainerRoad forum, but you never know what kind of idiots you are going to run into on that side. I'd rather ask the idiots here.

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I noticed that the plan I'm following is trying to adapt to something else. I see that the Threshold 5.6 is to Threshold 4.0, and Sundays Endurance goes from 4 hours, Endurance 7.0 to Endurance 5.3.


Is TrainerRoad telling me I suck and I'm too deep? I don't see why it would make it easier when I have been hitting the numbers and can handle the workload, unless it thinks I'm "okay" in those areas. I don't want to adapt too much in the negative way, since I'm doing that polarized plan. The longer intervals and endurance ride align more with what I'm trying to do, so it makes me feel like I should stick with that instead of the adapted suggestions
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So with this adaptive thing, what sort of feedback does it ask for after each completed workout? Did you say you were tired and it saw some of your metrics on the decline for TR to suggest you take it back a notch? I'm curious.
 
rosceaux said:
Reading this makes me feel better about accepting adaptations after restarting my training plan.
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My experiences reinforce putting a bigger emphasis on consistency vs worrying about doing harder workouts. Not that some workouts aren’t super hard, but they shouldn’t always be. And sometimes taking an easier workout alternative just because you don’t feel great is so much better than skipping the workout all together. Always err on the easy side.
 
jShort said:
That’s a very Dave Taylor way of thinking. Good luck with that!
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damn thats cold lol

just looking at the numbers they seem obtainable... im just about done with the polarized build plan, granted i dont follow it 100% on tuesdays...
 
Holy hell!

I go in the dungeon for a 48 minute zwift workout and it takes me two hours.
Decide to warm-up on the rower. fine, 10 minutes.
Turn on the apple tv, companion app, fire up zwift, everything pairs, click go.
Get a message that zwift needs to be updated. Fine. I soft pedal the trainer while it does it.
Few minutes later, and away we go, but the HR monitor won't pair again - remove battery, replace, connected.
Start the warm-up - erg mode is broken. Reboot the trainer. Reconnect.
Now i'm spinning away and the bike isn't moving. I have cadence, 0 power 0 speed.
hmm - try to spindown in zwift - fail
spin down in the wahoo app - ok.
still not working
check for an update to apple tv - sure enough - more than 10 minutes.
soft pedal
on restart the HRM won't pair again - remove battery, and replace. done.
navigate to workout, it is gone. I'm looking up and down this menu, and it must have been loading workouts,
cause the "plan" i'm doing isn't there. I finally find it. Load it up, and away i go.

so - update your app, update your hardware, and have a go on a wet trail day.
 
Patrick said:
Holy hell!

I go in the dungeon for a 48 minute zwift workout and it takes me two hours.
Decide to warm-up on the rower. fine, 10 minutes.
Turn on the apple tv, companion app, fire up zwift, everything pairs, click go.
Get a message that zwift needs to be updated. Fine. I soft pedal the trainer while it does it.
Few minutes later, and away we go, but the HR monitor won't pair again - remove battery, replace, connected.
Start the warm-up - erg mode is broken. Reboot the trainer. Reconnect.
Now i'm spinning away and the bike isn't moving. I have cadence, 0 power 0 speed.
hmm - try to spindown in zwift - fail
spin down in the wahoo app - ok.
still not working
check for an update to apple tv - sure enough - more than 10 minutes.
soft pedal
on restart the HRM won't pair again - remove battery, and replace. done.
navigate to workout, it is gone. I'm looking up and down this menu, and it must have been loading workouts,
cause the "plan" i'm doing isn't there. I finally find it. Load it up, and away i go.

so - update your app, update your hardware, and have a go on a wet trail day.
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Ha I just brought the bike down to the basement and booted up the PC just in case there's some updates - sure enough there are so letting that run while i am on my last conference calls.

On days I know I am gonna ride indoors I tend to boot everything up first thing when I come down for work in the morning and get Zwift all the way to the "pairing" screen and just let it sit there. It does help that my work space and desk is arms reach to the bike and Zwift PC though.

And here I thought AppleTV was the way to go and i am considering getting it with my free work reward points... hmm.
 
iman29 said:
Ha I just brought the bike down to the basement and booted up the PC just in case there's some updates - sure enough there are so letting that run while i am on my last conference calls.

On days I know I am gonna ride indoors I tend to boot everything up first thing when I come down for work in the morning and get Zwift all the way to the "pairing" screen and just let it sit there. It does help that my work space and desk is arms reach to the bike and Zwift PC though.

And here I thought AppleTV was the way to go and i am considering getting it with my free work reward points... hmm.
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my upstairs apple tv updated by itself. not sure what happened downstairs.
The only thing i don't like is that it only has a remote, rather than control by mirror.
meaning i have to turn on the tv to see what i'm doing, like playing SXM or Pandora 😉
Using airplay doesn't do the same thing.
 
Yeah these updates lately have been killing me when all I want to do is bang out a quick ride.
I also had some issues with the Erg mode dropping out mid interval last week, really sucked, I think it might have had something do with my Garmin
 
trener1 said:
Yeah these updates lately have been killing me when all I want to do is bang out a quick ride.
I also had some issues with the Erg mode dropping out mid interval last week, really sucked, I think it might have had something do with my Garmin
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thanks for the reminder at least to turn on the Zwift setup and let the updates run on a day I don't plan to use it.
 
All those stupid hours on the stupid rollers and what do I have to show for it?

Went for my first real trail ride today. There is a steep rocky section that I hadn't been able to clean on the 21t single speed last year. It was a little wet today, so not primo conditions, but I busted it out pretty readily with a 19T.
 
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