You don’t need to stress about it. Just try to hit the power targets as close as you can on the intervals. If you get extra TSS or your IF goes low from longer recovery intervals while setting up, you will be fine.
I have a bike path not far from my work that works great for any interval sets less than about 15 minutes (which is just about everything I will do). Usually a headwind in one direction makes it easier.
sounds great！I will try it outdoor😄
FYI, TR has a number of useful articles that may help you plan and perform outside workouts:
Also, after doing mostly indoor, it can be easy to get caught up in worrying about small pauses or power fluctuations in longer intervals. If you are doing a 20 min SS interval, it doesn’t really matter if you have to stop for 5-10 seconds twice during the interval for a stop sign or a turn or something or if your power drops for 15 seconds during a short descent.
Now if you are doing something more specific like over-unders or a 20min FTP test or VO2s then you have to be more intentional about your route so you don’t get caught at a red light 8 min into a test or have a descent where you can’t keep the power up during a VO2 interval. Or maybe do those inside if your terrain isn’t good for that.
But it will take some time to get out of the mindset that every interval has to be 100% perfect for it to be effective.
the new bolt is superior to the roam. Faster, more memory, better buttons. the roam is bigger, but that the only benefit, not worth the money. (I’ve had both)
Put me in the 1030 camp. Appreciate the big screen with 67yo eyes. I’m a touchscreen over buttons guy too.
I was a Wahoo fanboy but as I don’t use Strava (anymore) I went back to the Garmin 530. TR can push and pull from Garmin Connect. With Wahoo it’s a little different. TR can only push to Wahoo but can’t pull. You need Strava as stand-in-between as TR pulls the ride back into TR from Strava when it’s recorded with a Wahoo unit. Besides that, and you are a Strava user, either work very well.
In general both Garmin and Wahoo fully support doing TrainerRoad (or TrainingPeaks or …) workouts. There are a few other things that I prefer on the 530, like the real-time 2 minute power graph with a target line and FTP line. And the machine-learning training stuff like auto FTP estimates and aerobic/glycolytic training effect. And being able to quickly create a workout on Garmin mobile app.