I just did an outdoor ride which i am struggling to match to an workout. What would your your suggestion be an how is your approach to filter and find the best matching workout. My zone distribution from the unstructured outdoor ride showing here:
My best pick so far was Meteorite -1, but i am not really happy with this. I know that it is best to focus on zone distribution when trying to find a match, but the workout overview from e.g. Meteorite -1 did not really help me.
I’d just pick an endurance workout with sprints. No need to over-think it. Unless you live somewhere pan flat any outdoor ride is going to have spikes that make it look like you are doing lots of work in the higher zones.
What thing would that be? Genuine question. I see more and more people matching outside workouts without structure to TR workouts, but don’t see the benefit. If you just went out to ride your bike without a plan why try to convince AT that you increased your sweet spot PL?
I also use AI FTP Detection, therefore i assume it does make a difference wether to match or not. Even it is an outdoor ride you still get time in different zones which in real life contribute to your personal progression. This is why we will get this feature from TR in the future. Speaking of automatic matching for outdoor rides. In the meantime we are stuck with manually searching for a good match. Yes, Endurance in any case would be the least wrong decission to make, but i was trying to get a better match, that´s why is was asking.
But then AT just asumes you did the associated workout exatly as prescribed, or? Still don’t see the benefit as long as your actual performance is evaluated.
The danger for me is it adapts to the wrong thing. For instance you didn’t actually do say 20 structured blocks in the SS to stimulate an adaption in your body but AT thinks you have and ramps your PLs up an gives you a subsequent wo that too hard and you fail. You’d hope that AT subsequently adapts and fixes that overestimation of PL’s before overtraining kicks in but psychologically that failure is not ideal.
