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You have to go faster than 38.23km/h for 12h (probably only possible if it's a windless day) to stand a chance to win a cash prize of unknown amount. I know 100 Miler prize money is not great, but sure that's the better event to target?

Been giving further feedback in DMs and iterating through some plans. Algorithm is spitting out some decent training structure. 👏

Yeah, with a little common sense I can tweak the output into something sensible. Do the intervals immediately because I'm fresh and that allows me more time to recover for the hills, replace the one recovery ride with zone 2, replace the zone 3 with more zone 2, do hill repeats instead of "ride hard on the hills", do a proper long ride, replace the other recovery ride with a rest day... Things is, if someone said "do VO2max intervals early in the week, hill repeats later in the week, all other rides zone 2 with a long ride on Sunday" I could also use a little common sense and end up with something sensible... Either way. It's a good project, and it could very well grow into something powerful that empowers more people on their fitness journeys, so good on you! 💪

Feedback on the summary: A nice little breakdown. Average speed of 25.6 reported, but the slowest ride was done at 27.2 It reports elevation gain, so is taking that into account somehow, but IDT rides (for me) have no elevation. Not sure how much this will affect things. Feedback on the programme: Day 1 - 2h z2 Strange to recommend this coming off of a rest day and 2 days 90min z2 in the last 3 days. Day 2 - 3min intervals with 1:1 work to rest ratio. A good session for sure, but doesn't specify number of repeats. It says to do until the end of the ride meaning only 3min of cool-down and probably too many repeats. Workout is specified as 40km with 10min warm-up. Day 3 - 1h recovery ride Not what I would have went for, but not terrible. Big problem though is that this is Saturday and I have time to train, so what a waste! Day 4 - 50km hilly route doing hills hard. Not a very specific specification and the execution (in real time and post analysis) is not very measurable. Not a good session. Two days after doing VO2max intervals, eish I would not perform well... Also, it's Sunday I have more time than this! Day 5 - 70km tempo Hell no. Adding fatigue the day after hills with very little training stimulus. Also now you throw a longer session my way now that it's a work day? Day 6 - 80km endurance Longest ride of the 7 days. Hard to fit in on a Tuesday. It's also not long enough to get me into long ride benefits. My data (which the algorithm didn't look far enough back to see) indicates I need to cross the 4h mark. Day 7 - 40km recovery ride Mate, I came into this 7-day programme with 2 days training logged, you need to schedule a day off! General feedback: I assumed Day 1 is tomorrow since I already did a ride today, but the programme should specify when to start (or if you haven't done a ride today ask to confirm if you want to start today or tomorrow). It needs to schedule at least one rest day per week. It should space out intensity days more. It should be calendar aware and use weekends wisely. A rider with power data should be given power targets for intervals. It should require me to input training hours available and/or look further back to see how much I actually train. It prescribed 20% less than my regular active week training volume. Honestly, this might sound overly critical, but it violated quite a few basic fundamental training principles. A universally applicable one sentence piece of advice would lead to 95% of people self selecting better sessions to fill out a week.

Curiosity piqued. Signing up to see what it'll spit out. Does it pull Strava profile configuration for HR and power zones? My last 5 rides are: Recovery ride Intervals with mid-distance mid-distance z2 90min z2 on trainer after a rest day 90min z2 on trainer

That's less than a week's worth of training sessions for a semi serious rider. For a cyclist that also commutes by bike that might be 4 commutes and 1 training session. Surely you need multiple key sessions and multiple weeks to detect training trends...

Current weather predictions say the rain is shifting away.

I'm sure there will be at least two bunches, so wont have to start with the cat 1 guys.

Venue has moved back to Wellington (or Windmeul actually). It's now Hels after 35km and Bothmaskloof after 123km.

PPA sure has a strange approach in their attempt to try to stay relevant...

Not even One Tonner? 😱

Depends who shows up. An expensive 86km featureless race a week after One Tonner and 13 days before DC feels like it's an easy one to skip.

Hard to find anything about this event to get excited for... I know it's a "funride" so I'm not the target demographic for this one, but still. Also, since I'm featured in the promo image I feel torn about skipping it!

But to get back on topic. Tour de Worcester is a great race, and the more people enter the better!

Especially in recent years with PPA events being poorly supported. Maybe One Tonner the only exception. A lot of cat 1 teams boycott PPA because the seeding is a joke. Then also A-seeding is an index from 0-15 which is quite broad already, but often at a PPA fundride the A-group (custom per event) will go 0-22+ Whether you do seeding or self selection it's hard to get everyone in the groups they belong in!

I had to rewrite my category descriptions a few times after realising no matter how I frase it I come across as pompous! 🙈 If I remember correctly WP historically mapped to PPA seeding (which has largely fallen apart these days) as follows: Cat 1 - A seeding Cat 2 - B,C seeding Cat 3 - D,E,F seeding

I think the 86km should also have decent entry numbers, but maybe the fact that the 140km passes the finish venue at 86km, and again at 115km could encourage a few to go for the full distance knowing it won't be a long lonely day if something goes wrong...

It's definitely like that. I'm maybe just describing things poorly.

Yeah, we need better references for these things. Cat 3 at WP events is normally the slowest group where riding is still organised. Cat 1 is the serious racers, Cat 2 is the "sub-3 argus, but only just" group.

A handful of cat 3 level riders entered last year yes.

Hopefully this time round the route will not be change last minute. Shouldn't since that was council requiring that we avoid town intersections last year and the new route does that. Last year we were turned around a million times because not all marshals and comms had the correct GPX file from the 24h before the event change in route...

That was because of mishaps with seeding before the event that could not be corrected when brought to organisers attention on the morning of the race. Insider info says they will decide on the number of start groups once entries close.

Time to start testing tyre pressures...

Get a mate with a power meter to do a ride on your indoor setup at a few different power levels and dual record that for your tests.

Especially this year with the perpetual headwind. Not that much climbing but it means you're always on the pedals...