Adaptive Training with unstructured outdoor rides

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Unstructured outdoor rides and adaptive training/progresssion

Hi There, A follow up question from my posts from back in April: This Sunday I completed a B event, which was included within my current AT plan. Today (Tuesday) my AT training plan gave me a VO2 max productive workout of 6 x 5min @ 108% FTP. When feeling fresh I would have thought that doable but this morning I was, I guess still not quite recovered from Sunday and it became clear early on that today wasn’t a good day for such a workout. Even the warm up was feeling much harder than anticip…