I hope I am not too late with my question for Tuesday’s session.
I race Time Trials in the UK, 25, 50, 100 and even 12 hour. I am probably racing every other week (B races) but still pretty hard efforts. I did 16 open events this year.
I tried to include the 100m TT (4hrs 13m with an IF of .79) in my AT by matching it and putting in a response of “All out”. Of course this sent my PL off teh scale (11 something). I tried to include a 25TT in my AT by matching it against a comparable existing workout. All that did (as I was at FTP for an hour) was through my PL to around 11, and change all subsequent workouts.
So, my question is in three parts:
- I know you are planning to include external “unstructured” rides into AT. (I think many of mine are really purposeful, rather than unsructured, but that is a different debate.) Will you include races? If so, how? Especially TTs longer than 40km
- What will you do with someone like me who completes multiple pretty all out efforts every perhaps 3-4 weeks, and how will you include “Races” into the AT understanding of performance and training?
- I was pretty fatigued after my 12hr TT for 3-4 weeks (as you can imagine) However there is no options to say that the reason for failing a workout is “Race fatuigue” rather than training fatigue. Are you planning to include such a category. (PS 5 weeks after the 12 I PB’d by 11 minutes at a 100m TT.)
PS I am currently fudging AT by putting in a pretend A race around christmas to allow me to continue training., (But don’t tell anyone 
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Apart from this really loving the AT and PLs. Six stars.