What are HARD rides?

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Anyone have any insight as to what the program considers a “hard ride”? When I logged on today it said I had done 'less that two hard workouts in the last 7 days". More often than not it says I HAVE done more than 2 and offers me an easy ride. This was a first.

Here are the rides I did of consequence in the past 7 days:
ProRides: Ride London 1
On Location: French Pyrenees: Cirque de Gavarnie
On Location: Galicia: Camarinas to Muxia

My guess is they don’t consider the On Location rides as hard. Yet what they offered me as a hard ride to do today is Cash Register 32m/0.86IF/40 TSS.

The two On Location rides are 51m/0.79 IF/54 TSS & 1h.8m/0.72 IF & 59 TSS. It must be the IF as the sole determinant since both the time and TSS are higher than Cash Register.

Just talking out loud!

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I have given up trying to make sense of that feature, it’s pretty useless.

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You only say that because it’s true!!

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I was thinking the same thing, this morning.

I’d completed 6 Sufferfest workouts in the past 7 days, 4 of them at 100% intensity.

And yet, I was told, “You have done less that two hard workouts in the last 7 days”.

I was like… :flushed_face: :open_mouth: :man_facepalming:

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@emacdoug Sir Evan, you probably did some Sufferfest ‘remastered’ versions where they completely neutered the ride. In that case, they don’t think they are hard any more! :disappointed_face:

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If you are referring to the workouts that Sir Neal helped tone down, then they should still count as Hard Rides, especially compared to the No-Vids that I keep getting recommended.

I also Did Rue the Day and Team Scream. If Team Scream isn’t a hard ride then the only way to get a hard ride is to do 9H and turn it up to 111%. :slight_smile:

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Don’t shoot the messenger. I wasn’t the one that programmed the damn thing!

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Just agreeing with you. If Sufferfest workouts at 100% aren’t considered hard workouts then the algorithm has serious problems. :+1:

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I know. Just illustrating the stupidity of the whole thing. That said, 9H at 111% does sound like a ride!

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Sir Evan, you have given me a great idea. And by great, I mean, “are you out of your F-ing mind” great. I will begin a new post shortly.

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My SUF senses are tingling. This will surely be fantastic! And by fantastic I mean aweful and painful. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Sir Evan, here is the manifest of your spark of inspiration: Calling all Knights! - A challenge of EPIC proportions!

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Mine does the same, though I think because it isn’t taking account of TSS from outside rides I’ve done previously, it just seems to be ignoring them.

It always suggests a “harder” one of the same TSS or less than what I;ve done over the last two days! :laughing: I think I have the suggestions set to 45 minute max workouts, but still…

I will admit it IS useful just for not having to think too hard about what workout to do that day.

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@emacdoug if I recall, I got the same message during the Tour. I was like…WTF?! LOL :rofl:

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