Am I the only one not bothered about Adaptive Training?

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@Sarah

Please link the source of that information because that is not what the TR releases specify.

I’m quoting from the Current Known Issues list that are part of the announcement of AT:

@ncomerford

Outside Workouts

• Outside Workouts Completed on Wahoo or other device or uploaded via Strava don’t count toward Progression Levels
• Occasionally outside workout outcomes don’t get correctly classified
• Manually completed Outside Workouts don’t get count toward Progression Levels

More details were shared during podcast episode 298 (where AT was first announced), starting from 1:20:28.

So classification of outside workouts is planned to be part of AT. (Of course, I have no insider information and I am not arguing that it is definitely part of the initial release. That feature could be delayed to a future release.) Hope that helps.

@Sarah

Workout levels are built around previous workouts at a particular level. Doing a 6 minute climb then doing another one 15 minutes later is not a match to the specifically crafted workout with a ratio of working set to recovery. There isn’t a machine learning in the world that will know “how was your sprint at the end” without understanding the context.

I think I understand the difficulties very well: you are trying to characterize a ride with a few numbers. Nevertheless, it does not seem impossible: I think it is good evidence that I am improving VO2max power when I achieve a 3–5-minute power PR. To quantify that is hard. But then, it took TR >3 years to get to where they are now. And even if the measure they have come up with is imperfect, they could iterate on it.