Bug last few weeks - taper = "high risk" and overtraining?

Not sure if this is the right place, but TL;DR: fitnes/fatigue/form got really off the last few weeks while tapering. The numbers were pretty close to TP and Athletica until then but unfortunately couldn’t rely on Intervals for my taper. Is there a setting or something I did to cause this?

I just did IMAZ this weekend, and the weeks leading into it were a taper. Intervals seemed to have accurate load prior to taper (I’m winding down my TP subscription, and train with Athletica.AI, and compared to them), but taper weeks showed me in “high risk” with an insanely high load for the shorter / easier taper workouts.

Both TP and Athletica showed me on a taper with my form being in the positive, while Intervals showed me progressively overloading (of course the race itself should be dipping like it does, but the weeks prior are the issue):

First see an earlier week where I ran a half marathon and additional 5 miles at higher intensity plus the usual training, form -21:

8hr long brick, form -50

Then…taper week? Load shot up, form -71, but note the low HR and intensities:

Week 42: 732 (506+180+46)
Week 43: 401 (54+291+56)
Week 44: missing from your post
Week 45: 1,111(279+648+184)

The load values on the week 45 run workouts look mighty odd to me.

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That’s exactly it, easy runs, shouldn’t be as high as they are. @Gerald the math adds up, but the workout loads are way off.

You must have changed your training zones (maybe only by accident). Comparing these two runs


It’s nearly the same GAP, the bottom is even a bit slower, but there is red and orange in the chart, which indicates it was a hard run (threshold and above), the first is turquoise, which means it is an easy run (recovery zone)

A load of 266 for a 1h23m run and also 206 for 1h04m indicates that your FTP is incorrectly set. what does the load show for HR? Click on the pencil icon to reveal the training load.
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I’d ignore the power and see what the load would be with HR and how that changes your chart(s).

Ok, still looks like a bug but here it is. Thanks for the place to look.

Pace is where it went off the rails:

Checking my paces, they are correct, threshold of 10:25/mi, those runs were at 11-12mins…

But in the workouts, it applied the mile threshold to kilometers, which made it look like I was going VERY hard:

All my thresholds appear correct, I haven’t applied anything or edited anything in kilometers, and looks like the workout algo messed up. How do I report this accurately?