8 days microcyles Training plans

This may be a feature request to organize training plans for athletes who are not constrained by the 7 days week microcycle. I would find more natural a 8 days microcycle where you might follow a 4 days sequence of Intervals - Strength - Long Ride - Recovery (and repeat)

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I’ll forward your feature request to the team :slight_smile:

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In the interests of pedantry, surely that is a four day cycle…

Nah. It"s a 16 day cycle split into two halves. :sunglasses:

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I know people who do 10 day cycles and it is great in terms of training purposes. Of course the issue we all run into is that the work week is… 7 days.

If we could just normalize a 4 day work week that would definitely help! :star_struck:

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Indeed 10 days with 2 hard days would better adjust to the 80/20 model.
I adapted my TR plan to 3 “weeks” of 8 days just moving forward the workouts followed by one 4 days recovery “week”. Same overall recovery but more evenly distributed. I find also that a whole 7 days recovery week Is too long specially if you adhere to a masters or polarized plan

I feel like you could do this already with TR, but it would take a little effort on your part.

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I went through the trouble of shifting days around to accommodate an irregular work schedule last year, often training on days not specified by the plan. Also I had different durations assigned to different training zones. Lo & behold on a couple of occasions it tried to adapt my next intervals-type 2h sweetspot to a short-rest sustained-power type for 1h, changing the workout profile because it was pretty slim pickings to find a 1h sweetspot workout at that PL. I think it had something to do with my doing the rearrangement several days in advance. If you do the rearrangement at the time of actually loading the workout, the engine doesn’t have time to offer an adaptation.

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