I still have issues with the timing of fitness peaks (as opposed to peak fitness). It starts building for the 1st objective, then as soon as it's over it starts building for the next one, doesn't reach it in time, from then on the fitness peaks are out of sync with the actual objectives. If you went e.g UAE, Tirenno, Giro or even TDF you might not even have a peak during the Giro or TDF. I'm not sure if the full green compared to the 95% green affects this and you can use full green for the ones you want the peak as opposed to high fitness. Any thoughts on this?
I'm still figuring that part out, that's the main reason I didn't talk about it much. My thinking though is you'll need to gap the objectives a little further out to keep the timing right. Add another week to two weeks between objectives.
I might be a bit late with my answer, but in my opinion you should just ad 3-4 season-objectives wich are fare from each other, like in the pcm20. And if you want your rider to be in good fitness for races close to each other, just add the green bar, wich says "95 fitness". It workd quite well to be at your fitness-peak at your main goal, and in good shape- without fitnesspeak- at races wich are a bit less important to you. But remember also to place a few off-weeks, that your tiredness doesent get too high.
Hello, I just watched this tutorial, so I'm really late with my question. I'm playing PCM2022 but I think the same logic will apply. I was wondering, when I'm triggering a Fitness peak for an objective I set, I usually end up with having a remaining Fitness Peak for 10 days or more left after the objective race is done. If I understand correctly it is advised to take a break after the objective race is over, or can I do that after the Fitness Peak ends? As I'm still left with a lot of Fitness peak which would be unused otherwise. It seems to me it would make sense to use what is left of the fitness peak by using the rider in races during the whole of the fitness peak. Does that make sense? What would be the consequences? Would I be gaining a lot of tiredness during that time? Great tutotial by the way!
The rest period should come as soon as the fitness peak comes to an end, that's where recovery is most important. Use those fitness peak days up if you have a chance, they're great!
I'm pretty late with this comment, but since this is a tutorial, I'll leave it anyway. You are mixing things up. There is the Fitness, and the Fitness Peak, as you mention it. The Fitness Peak system is totally the same as last year. If a rider has an objective coming up in the next 8 weeks, he starts to fill the gauge. Once filling started, nothing can stop it. The speed of filling depends on days in reces, training camps, and fitness level. There is cap for fitness level and tiredness, but not for dasy until objective. The fitness level is a completly different thing. It is basically training - tiredness, with the latter part being 0 for less than 40 tiredness. Very similar to last year. However, the training intensity and rest days are autmotically managed, based on the colour line below the objectives. There is absolutely no cap on fitness, if you manually remove break weeks on the objectives page, you can keep a rider at 98% for weeks, without a single objective coming up, at a natural cost of building up tiredness.
You are correct. I did this tutorial - as many requested since some of it was new - only a week after the game came out. I was still exploring a couple of the systems and on that detail I was off.
