Best Xert setup for a weekly Sunday race league (MyWhoosh)?

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Best Xert setup for a weekly Sunday race league (MyWhoosh)?

Hi all,

Looking for advice on Xert configuration for a recurring event — I’m about to start racing in a Sunday league on MyWhoosh, so this isn’t a one-off goal race but a weekly fixture.

My experience so far has been almost entirely with Event mode: set a date, pick the race type, let Xert taper me into it. That’s worked well for occasional A-races where the taper and peak actually make sense. But obviously Xert only lets you target one Event at a time, so that approach breaks down for a race that happens every week.

My working assumption is to switch to Continuous Improvement as the base target, and just treat each Sunday race as a hard, high-value interval session that CI/Adaptive Training Advisor will read and adapt from — rather than trying to force a taper cycle every single week.

A few things I’d love input on:

  1. Does anyone else race weekly and run CI as the base mode? Does it actually keep progressing eFTP well with a hard breakthrough effort baked in every week, or does it undertrain you the rest of the week to “protect” the race?

  2. Any tips on manually managing the day(s) before the race (e.g. Saturday) so Adaptive Training Advisor doesn’t stack too much fatigue right before the league race, without going full Event-mode taper?

  3. Is there a middle ground — e.g. using Event mode with a very short taper window, re-set weekly — that people have found works better than pure CI?

  4. Any specific Focus setting (Breakthroughs vs. Base vs. Peak) that pairs best with a weekly race rhythm like this?

Setup: MyWhoosh via Zwift Cog /, current Threshold Power ~310W. Appreciate any real-world experience from people running a similar weekly race cadence.

Thanks!