TrainingPeaks Virtual (TPV) Chat Zone

[ColinJ]

I was thinking that the terrain used in TPV is quite interesting and was wondering if someone had designed it from scratch, but then I discovered this...

TrainingPeaks Virtual (formerly indieVelo) uses Mussau Island, located in Papua New Guinea, as its core fictionalized training world. The platform overlays its virtual environment on the actual geographical coordinates of the island (-1.37°S to -1.49°S, 149.57°E to 149.69°E).


I did another zone 2 session this evening. I had been thinking that my HRM was displaying some weird variations in pulse rate but then I realised that they were triggered by the way that I was breathing. My heart was beating steadily at 130 bpm when I was taking rapid, shallow breaths. I could quickly lower that by 5-10 bpm just by concentrating on taking slower, deeper breaths!

 

[ColinJ]

@Norry1 (or anybody else who knows more than me!)...

I was just looking on Training Peaks at my power data for an interval session that I did on the turbo trainer. I did the intervals at 190 W but the TP analytics page is showing them to have been done at only 165 W! It is correctly showing the recovery intervals at 120 W though.

I cocked up a ramp test a couple of weeks ago so TP thinks that my FTP is 165 W, but it is actually nearer 200 W. (I did a hilly local ride in October and averaged 160 W for 4 hours, so 165 W is way low.)

Is TP clipping my power numbers because it thinks that I couldn't possibly have actually done 4 x 4 minutes at 115% of what it has calculated my FTP to be?

I am tempted to put my CAAD5 on the turbo trainer so I can compare the power data from its pedals with the Victory trainer's data.

 

[Norry1]

@Norry1 (or anybody else who knows more than me!)...

I was just looking on Training Peaks at my power data for an interval session that I did on the turbo trainer. I did the intervals at 190 W but the TP analytics page is showing them to have been done at only 165 W! It is correctly showing the recovery intervals at 120 W though.

I cocked up a ramp test a couple of weeks ago so TP thinks that my FTP is 165 W, but it is actually nearer 200 W. (I did a hilly local ride in October and averaged 160 W for 4 hours, so 165 W is way low.)

Is TP clipping my power numbers because it thinks that I couldn't possibly have actually done 4 x 4 minutes at 115% of what it has calculated my FTP to be?

I am tempted to put my CAAD5 on the turbo trainer so I can compare the power data from its pedals with the Victory trainer's data.

Where did you get the workout from?

 

[ColinJ]

Where did you get the workout from?

I took a hilly 3 km loop on some of my local hills and saved it as a GPX file which I uploaded to TrainingPeaks to use as the basis for a training 'event'. (The clunky way needed to make it available in TPV!)

I scheduled the event for later in the evening. When I got on the bike I rode the event solo as a freeride, flipping the power levels manually using cruise control.

I did a 12 minute warm-up lap, gradually increasing the cruising power from 100 W to 120 W.

Each lap starts at the bottom of the climb. When I got to that to that each time for 4 laps I flicked the cruising power to 190 W and did 1 km up the climb at that power.

TPV helpfully generates a big boulder at the side of the road at 1 km so I climb to that, which takes 4-ish minutes at that power, then I reduce the power to 120 W to ride over the crest of the hill and descend back round to the start of the climb.

I did climb #6 at an intermediate power, reduced to 120W for the descent and climb #7.

Once the final climb was finished, I gradually reduced the power to 100 W.

The ride went exactly as planned. (I really like cruise control!) The analytics showed exactly what I had been doing everywhere, except that my 190 W efforts were displayed as 165 W, the incorrect value my botched ramp test had given me a couple of days before.

 

[Norry1]

I took a hilly 3 km loop on some of my local hills and saved it as a GPX file which I uploaded to TrainingPeaks to use as the basis for a training 'event'. (The clunky way needed to make it available in TPV!)

I scheduled the event for later in the evening. When I got on the bike I rode the event solo as a freeride, flipping the power levels manually using cruise control.

I did a 12 minute warm-up lap, gradually increasing the cruising power from 100 W to 120 W.

Each lap starts at the bottom of the climb. When I got to that to that each time for 4 laps I flicked the cruising power to 190 W and did 1 km up the climb at that power.

TPV helpfully generates a big boulder at the side of the road at 1 km so I climb to that, which takes 4-ish minutes at that power, then I reduce the power to 120 W to ride over the crest of the hill and descend back round to the start of the climb.

I did climb #6 at an intermediate power, reduced to 120W for the descent and climb #7.

Once the final climb was finished, I gradually reduced the power to 100 W.

The ride went exactly as planned. (I really like cruise control!) The analytics showed exactly what I had been doing everywhere, except that my 190 W efforts were displayed as 165 W, the incorrect value my botched ramp test had given me a couple of days before.

No idea then - I'd raise a support call.