@Zack or anyone else - care to be my Peloton class programmer for a second?
I'm through the first week of the "Discover Your Power Zones" program and I'm looking ahead to the next 4 weeks, but the way the classes are scheduled seems very...odd. Almost every single one is an "endurance" ride with almost exclusively Zone 3 efforts in various lengths with recoveries in between. A couple of the classes have a few Zone 4 and 5 intervals, but not a single one for the next 4 weeks has even a Zone 6, let alone any all-out efforts. I haven't read into the philosophy around power zone training much yet (I plan to), but it's counterintuitive to me to
never have any
out efforts for that long of a training period.
These classes are 30 or 45 minutes...it seems to me that if your Zone 4 is something you can hold for an hour, unless you're doing some Zone 5 or higher efforts you should be able to do a 30 minute ride at least at Zone 4 without ever going lower than that...so why in the world would I spend an entire ride that short doing Z3 intervals with recoveries in Z2? Seems an epic waste of time unless it's truly an active recovery day.
I found this YouTube channel (NorCal Cycling -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIfRR1 ... j9X955iWSQ) that has a "Couch to Crit" series, where a former professional cyclist is coaching a relatively untrained cyclist how to get ready for race season. He's using TrainerRoad for the programming aspect and while I don't have the equipment to take advantage of that program, I'm hoping I can glean some programming tidbits from the videos in the series to maybe help me pick my Peloton classes and mimic the approach.