The Personal Records table displays any 6 week Personal Records you've achieved on the ride. A personal record indicates you've hit a 6 week power high for one of 18 different durations. The durations were selected because a cross section of coaches train intervals at these durations. This contrasts with displaying all time Personal Records elsewhere in the system. Attaining a 6 week PR is a good enough indicator that your training is progressing! For more info see the Personal Records Overview help topic.
The Training Load Summary This Week vs Prior table displays both the training load incurred both last week, and this week up to and including
the day of the ride, and also whether you are ahead or behind this week compared to last week. There is a strong consensus among
coaches and athletes that in order to improve performance training load has to increase. If you're unsure about what training load is or how it's calculated check out the Ride Header help topic where it's defined.
How much to increase training load week over week is individual and problematic. Here are a couple of articles which provide some general
guidelines. Note that both of these articles use the term "TSS" which is a trademarked term of Training Peaks instead of the generic "Training Load".
Training Stress: Ramp Rate and Target Ranges
Off-Season Training For Masters Cyclists
The last table on the page shows the historical training load context for the ride based on month and day. If your ride occured on a Tuesday in January the system would show you an average training load for all Tuesday rides from January which occured prior to the day's ride.
If your current ride is behind the average ride there might be a good reason for that - maybe you did a really hard ride the day before.
But there might not be a good reason. In that event it might be beneficial to go back and look at some of those stronger rides
to provide some insight and inspiration from what you've done in the past.
See also