Pause on Indoor Workouts affects TSS and Time in Zones

Hi David,

Today I did a long ride in Zwift, and I Paused it in my garmin after 2 hours to be with my family for some time and 1 hour and a half later I unpaused and continue my route in Zwift.

I finished my ride with an elapsed time of 6 hours aprox, but with a real riding time of 4 hours 30 min.

Now my workout on intervals.icu shows a ride of 6 hours 6 min and time in zones for those 6 hours, why? I did not ride during 90 minutes, should not stop counting during my pause? It adds 90 minutes into Z1 Zone when I didn’t move any pedal (ouch) This modified a lot my time in zones for the workout and for the week.

It seems like it takes elapsed time into consideration instead of real riding time and “refill” paused time with Z1 training for Time in Zones.

https://intervals.icu/activities/i878119

Maybe because it is an indoor Activity without real move in kilometers or distance affects the calculation?

Actually, my TSS is a lot bigger than my real TSS for the activity because intervals used that 90 unreal minutes of activity to do the maths.

As always, thanks a lot again!

Fabian

Actually Intervals.icu does leave the pause out of the TSS calculation, it does that even if you don’t pause otherwise rides with punctures and coffee stops get inflated TSS. TSS of 151 for 4h30 doesn’t seem high.

The time in zones info is incorrect. Intervals.icu uses “moving” to decide what to include there and this ride has no velocity or moving streams. I should be able to fix this because there is no data for that 90 min part.

I have fixed this for deployment Monday AM (GMT+2). Tx for the report.

You were right about the TSS being too high. The missing moving and velocity data broke that as well. It now ends up with 131 TSS and 4h30 moving time.

Thank you!!! for this great support and platform. :clap: :clap: :clap: