Chad,

I've been battling with patellar tendinitis for about two months, so running hasn't been an option for me, but I've taken that time and put it all on the bike and pool. With that said, I'm on the bike seven days a week, currently doing the Olympic Base plan and adding in additional rides where there are off days. But, what workouts should I add on those days?

Right now, the plan has Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I put 60 mins of Z2 on Monday and Wednesday (Pettit) with a recovery ride (lazy mountain) on Sunday. Is that sufficient or should I switch up the plan or jump plans all together to a cycling specific plan? I'm balancing this with rehab/strength and conditioning(3x/wk) and swimming.

A bigger issue is my wife that always wants to ask me questions when the hard intervals hit. She doesn't understand why I don't, can't, respond. Lol. Any fix for this trainerroad?

Put her through some VO2 max efforts.

Yea, I doubt its the battery because it dropped my speed/cadence sensor, heart rate monitor, amd power meter all together.

Ill just run my Garmin all the time.

if you unplug and replug the ANT+ stick it seems to get everything reconnected.

I've got a question for ya Chad, and I apologize if it has been asked before.
On the final week of the plans, usually a recovery week, that is usually followed by a FTP test, my question is why isn't the final workout one of the Truuli workouts which is a primer for a TT or race? I'm thinking of doing this workout Sunday instead of Slide Mountain on the General Build before I start Half Distance Build with the 20 min test.

Hi, I have a quick question about the 20 minute FTP test on TrainerRoad.

Your FTP is calculated as 95% of your Average Power from the 20 min test interval, so you have to hit 1 / 0.95 = 105.3% of your FTP in that interval, right?

When you load up the test in the program, the Target and Actual bars for the 20 minute test interval are only set at around ~102% of your current FTP, so if you're roughly tracking along that as a pacing tool then you're going to significantly undershoot your current FTP. I know the test interval is supposed to be an all-out effort so theoretically it shouldn't matter, but to have the Target set so low seems a bit strange and certainly threw me when I did the test last night.

I notice that this isn't the case for the 8 minute FTP test, where the test interval targets are set at ~111% of your current FTP as would seem to make sense.

Is the 20 minute test supposed to be like this and if so, why?

Thanks!

I had the same issue the last time I retested. Would love to see the target increased to account for a 2-3% increase in ftp since this is what the on screen instructions states is fairly normal.

I do not like the idea of removing the target completely as it is a bit of a mental boost to see you are over the bar and it is easy to see exactly how you are tracking at a quick glance.

Other than that, still love the program and into my second season using it.

In the long term we're going to remove the target all together.