r/trainerroad

I used trainer road about six or seven years ago and then went away from it. Last month I decided to give it a go again.

TR detected an FTP of 197. I did the majority of the scheduled workouts except for one week during a base building camp, where I did a lot of volume but not intensity.

My new FTP is 215, an ~8% increase. During the month, TR estimated a high of 224 and a low of 209 before settling on 215 yesterday.

Right now, the new 28-day estimate is 215-->230. That seems reasonable given my historical FTPs of ~195 to ~250, depending upon training consistency.

I love the new platform and flexibility. The interface is really good and makes sense, although TR sometimes throws me a curve when it changes future training based on a completed workout--when I already had the previous schedule set in my mind.

I am excited to see if I can reach my historical best FTP or better it.

Hi folks. I have this workout on my calendar today. It's 3 sets of 50" on with 30" off at 125-135% of FTP. I did a similar workout using ERG last week with good results. I am thinking about doing today's outside on a flat course that has no stops. Does anyone have experience or recommendactions for doing these workouts indoors vs outdoors? Thanks!

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Yesterday I switched a Bird VO2 max workout from 1.5 hours to 1 hour. The only change was dropping 30 min of Z2 post intervals. I successfully completed the workout on Zwift, earning a star for every segment by hitting targeted power. I marked the workout as "hard," a 7/10 on the RPE scale.

Prior to the workout TR showed my estimated FTP for Jul 1 from 197-->224. After uploading the completed workout, it showed 197-->214. Not a huge deal as I believe performance trumps prediction. However, I was surprised that reducing 30 min of Z2 caused such a big drop, if that's the cause. Does anyone have experience or opinions on why the drop?

My other thought is there is something deeper in my recent training history that led to the drop, like how Training Peaks has a 42-day rolling TSS average, and at day 43 rides "fall off" and don't figure into calculations.

I've spent the last few months building an indoor cycling coach as a side project and I'm at the point where I need real users instead of more code.

The core idea is pretty simple: instead of following a fixed training plan, the app recommends a workout each day based on how you're feeling, recent training load, goals, and whether you've actually been absorbing the work.

I've been a TrainerRoad user on and off over the years, so a lot of my thinking started from my experience of having an hour long ride planned for a day where I only had 45 minutes and I had been up all night with a sick toddler.

I'm not really looking to sell anything here. I'm trying to find a handful of indoor cyclists who are willing to use it for a few weeks and tell me where it's wrong, confusing, or just worse than TrainerRoad.

If that sounds interesting, let me know and I'll send you the link.