Pushing Workouts to Trainerroad

Feature Requests
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Hi Marek, I don’t disagree with you at all. TR is a 10+ year old app with big budgets and they have made lots of small adjustments to perfect their app and as you point out critical features for one user are different than another. Our app is basically 1-year old and we move as fast as we can to try to make a great experience for as many people as possible.

This is actually the first anyone has every said about this big power jump and starting the interval early. We just launched automated slope mode which I feel is better for very short intervals (4-7 seconds) than ERG but it requires more thought while training and designing your workouts, now it sounds like TR has perfected 10-second intervals so their ERG is much better than ours like you pointed out.

The nature of trainers we send power change 2-seconds early already both Wahoo and FTMS take about 2-seconds to change so making an adjustment for big intervals should not be too hard. I use Neo which is nearly instant. Thanks so much for giving clear feedback. This really helps us. We will test this and improve this.

I really like TR and I like the TR team and am not trying to be their competetion at least not for their core target audience but it sounds like you are a self-coached cyclist so you are more of our target audience and something that we will likely or at least I hope to provide a better experience for you at some point as our focus is different than TR’s. I fully feel your pain regarding loading workouts in TR. I was a TR user loading my own workouts. This is a big part of the reason I built TrainerDay as well as I didn’t feel the pricing was right in TR for the self-coached cyclist.

Thanks again for your feedback. Sorry David for taking up so much room here on your forum :slight_smile:

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Ditch erg mode and your training will be enhanced!! Thank me later!!

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I’m not going to disagree with your response about TR and Intervals not having automated integration, and how much better it could be with it. The two athletes the do use it could benefit, but it doesn’t stop them from getting a productive workout by being prepared.

Even if it takes 5 minutes to drop a workout into the workout creator, it’s part of being able to accommodate athletes with a diverse range of training needs. If you are losing 30mins training time per week, then it’s poor planning.

I insist that my athletes read the notes before the workout, so they know what is planned for the next day. Get all your gear ready the night before, make sure your computer is powered up before getting dressed, so that it’s ready to ride when dressed.

As for your subsequent question on the ERG mode not kicking in early enough, I would agree on @Sam_Bagley and suggest you do it in resistance/slope/incline mode; your training will benefit more by doing so. 30/30s are threshold workouts, not VO2, AC and NP where you need to be going full gas with lots of recovery inbetween.