I have a 6 months Crunched Power plan, progressing from 7 to 10 hours per week. There seems to be a problem with Z2 progression near the end of the plan (interestingly, not the very last few weeks but a little before that) - e.g. see below, 120m Fard Endurance workout which contains 88% blocks and three times more time in Tempo zone than Endurance. This makes the Z2 workout harder than actual SS workout in the same week.
I’m just a user, but which intensity did you pick? Fard is the hardest of the Z2 ride types, but 88% sounds high. Did you pick “Tried the above options and need more”?
Dave
I chose starting intensity level 2 and “I could do more than that”
Yes, the term “endurance” is actually based on the default settings, but you have pointed out something else that should be improved.
If someone does not pick the default ride feel and because we keep increasing intensity through the block it can definitely jump out of endurance as you have pointed out. We need to put more limits in place such as this or make it more clear some how.
Also if you increase the starting intensity to higher then it ramps up harder. So if you set your block to be hard (intensity and ride feel above defaults) in the beginning it will hard but it will be brutal at the end especially if it is a longer block.
See below with our default “zone 2” setting after 13 weeks it peaks at about 72%.
Thanks again for being so transparent. This really helps us improve our product to better match peoples expectations.
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So the starting interval intensity does not only ‘quick progress’ the plan, i.e. starts the plan at week 2-10 instead of 1, but also changes the ramp up for all workouts?
I just did some more tests, even with intensity level 1 and “mostly easy” setting, the same problem occurs. It seems the problem is not with the level but rather with the ‘block start/end hours’ setting when the plan is long enough (6 months). I chose to progress from 7 to 10 hours/week with 4 workouts/week, as I don’t want to start too easy with 60 min workouts and I don’t want to finish too hard with workouts over 3 hours. It seems that near the end of the plan CJ cannot progress hours anymore due to the set limit, so it chooses to progress intensity into high tempo instead. Would be nice to have an intensity limit which prevents Z2 workouts from becoming high tempo 
Hmmm, even when I have 6 months I don’t see this high unless I increase ride feel and still struggle to get it to that high of intensity but yes we will get some limits in place.