Yeah, absolutely.

Don't hold me to this order, but at this moment I plan to have the Rolling Road Race plans ready first (within a week) followed really closely by the Climbing Road Race, Stage Race & Criterium plans. Up next is the revised Half-Distance Tri plan and the Full-Distance, Olympic & Sprint Distance Plans which I'd like to have ready by late January.

Then, in no order we've determined yet, revised Olympic Distance MTB plans, Marathon & Short Track/Gravity MTB plans, revised 40k TT plans, 10 & 50-mile TT plans, new Century, Half Century & Double Century plans, and some Noob/Beginner plans. Tabled for now but most likely forthcoming are also some Duathlon, Gran Fondo & Track plans. Beyond that, you guys tell us. ;-)

All of the Specialty plans are set at 8 weeks and at this time I don't anticipate any deviations from this since we're trying to make this as uniform as possible, at least in terms of plan durations, such that riders can plan 12 weeks of Base, 8 weeks of Build & 8 weeks of Specialty. We'll even have suggestions on double-peaks & multi-discipline training, but one thing at a time.

I mentioned revisions on existing plans and those are mostly taking place because some of them included their own Base/Build blocks which will be removed and some need taper reworking, recovery weeks, properly ramped TSS rates, etc.

Question for the experts here: Got into the tri world last year and finished my first 70.3. Looking to do my first full this year (Tahoe) and just purchased a trainer and using trainer road for my workouts. I'm a little unsure which plan to start with for my base...the traditional or sweet spot. Any insight would be appreciated.

Question,

I have my quarq paired along with kickr,
At the end of a workout it says the power source was the quarq.

Does this mean that the quarq is what was displayed on the screen ?
I do find the numbers matched pretty much exactly
And the erg targets were 15-20 higher that what was recorded by the quarq.

Should the kickr's stated erg power be displayed on the screen ?
Thanks,

L

Pretty great story, thanks for sharing that! It's extremely satisfying to see our plans steer athletes to success stories like that one. :)

The 70.3 plan is going to see some revision in that I'll be cutting it down to an 8-week plan with a shorter, 1-week taper. Shortly thereafter, I'll put together an 8-week full-distance plan, and I'll definitely make the outdoor-substitution recommendation with a short explanation of how less time indoors can match the stress of longer durations outdoors, i.e. you might have to ride a little longer (or really keep your effort up) if you do your long rides outdoors if you want to match the same TSS.

Until then, I'd recommend kicking off your training - if you haven't already - with 12 weeks of Base conditioning (Sweet Spot or Traditional) followed by the Sustained Power Build (8 weeks) after which the new 8-week, full-distance plans (with probably a 2-week taper in this case) will be ready & waiting for you.

All told, this is a 28-week plan leading right up to your IM and you can grow it by another 6 weeks if you use Traditional Base and tack on the 2-week block extensions. How's that sound?

It's really just a matter of how much time you can spend on the bike without incurring any issues, e.g. joint pain, excessive muscle soreness, too-high fatigue, etc. But the work itself is mild in terms of intensity. I know that's not much of a hard answer, but this is a situation that could go either way, favorably so if your fitness is otherwise reasonably good.

You can always try the first week using the mid-volume plan and then see how you feel by the start of the second week, or even monitor your fatigue as the week moves along.

And, not to give you too many options, but you can make your own cross-bred low/mid-volume block by using workouts from both plans and landing somewhere in the middle with your weekly volume. Hope that helps!

Chad,

Have you had any issues with TrainerRoad being able to see the Computrainer, but not being able to pick up the wattage? I have an older model CT that was working last year. I contacted Racermate and they've indicated the new chip set should resolve any issues. I just want to get your take on it before I make the order...I am trying to get a professional opinion as to whether I should I pick up the new USB adapter too (mine is >5 years old)?

Very happy with using TR with my Kickr...but CT has been more of a challenge.

Take care,
Matt

...You can always try the first week using the mid-volume plan and then see how you feel by the start of the second week, or even monitor your fatigue as the week moves along. ...

...I'd say give it a try (frankly, the time on the saddle is the hard part of the base plan, not the pedaling. The base stuff does not get to be intense work until part III and even that is not bad). You can always back down and the workouts are not going to tear you up before you can decide to dial it back.

Hi Nate, a few of us have been using the Wahoo firmware update with the Wahooligan app that allows an external power meter to control the Kickr. I've used the Beta solution now successfully two times in TrainerRoad sessions on a PC laptop. Are the folk at TR also working to bring that into the TR application so that using the Wahooligan application step can be removed from the process.

I realize this is so new to many of us that you may not have or cannot share if TR is working with Wahoo to get that functionality into TR. In the same manner we could see some kind of green signal like what we check in the Wahooligan app to see if the power meter is being used by the application.

Thanks