Read that and first reaction was “what?” Here is my perspective:
- TR has self-coaching resources like the season planning guide Training Plan Guide: How to Coach Yourself to Peak Fitness which makes it easy to think thru a full cycle and beyond.
- Using that info, I designed a season starting August 26 and consisting of
- 6-weeks SSB-1 as early base
- 9-week polarized block as late base to raise “CTL” to 90 (using 6-week average TSS in calendar) using a combination of long slow distance and hard vo2 efforts (trying this as alternative to SSB-2 HV).
- 8-week sustained build
- 8-week specialty
- That is 60% of a (365 day) year, and after that I’m just going to enjoy unstructured riding before starting the next season around September 1st of 2020.
Using the TR calendar, plans, and workouts has been the best experience as compared to buying plans (including free ones like SUF) on TrainingPeaks, using Zwift plans, or using CTS plans on Strava premium.
Does TR have all the charts I’d like? No. I’ve settled on TrainerRoad and doing data deep-dives in WKO4. Still have accounts on other services, for specialized reasons (data sync and archiving). Could I get along just fine with TR only? Yes. Would love to see TR add features to performance analytics.