Changpao wrote:
It's been about six months since TR launched its adaptive training program. I'm wondering if anyone has used it and, if so, what are your thoughts? I am a few weeks into the mid-volume full distance plan. I used the same plan the two previous years for races that ended up cancelled). The one I'm using is not adaptive-- it is a canned plan-- but still I've noticed changes, which I assume are a result of what TR learned in the process of creating the adaptive training. The cycling workouts are less intense than the previous version. Overall, I think it's an improvement because TR plans tended to bury me, especially the Olympic one.
I tried to use it, but had limited ability to evaluate. My problem was that mid-season I started doing about 2/3 outdoor rides, and TR, to my knowledge, doesn't yet incorporate outside rides into the adaptive part. I'm not yet ready, despite the Houston crash thread, to convert to pure indoor training.
Of those workouts I did, yes, they were easier to complete.
I didn't really get any sense of what TR might have changed as a consequence of learning something about me.
I also had a hard time "caring" about the Progression Levels. I cared a lot about my Ramp Test results (which improved).
So my personal evaluation is still never much a work in progress. This fall/winter I'm attempting like 3x week indoor plan to mix in with 3-4 outdoor rides. I just don't know how well the underlying learning process is going to learn about me if it doesn't "know" about the massive amount of stress I'm accumulating outdoors.