A race triathlon plan, B race that is not bike race scheduling

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I’m fully aware that you cannot currently schedule an event that isn’t a bike race other than triathlon when setting up a plan. You can obviously add random swims and runs to your calendar.

I feel like I have noticed it before but for some reason didn’t think about it, but when you put a triathlon event on your calendar it actually shows up as 3 races, a swim race, a bike race and a run race. The system clearly is able to see a swim and run race as events.

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I got curious and sure enough you can right click on them individually and copy them, so what happens? Well choosing the run in this case since it had a distinct time I copied pasted that a few weeks outside of my plan and… womp womp

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It changes your run race to a bike race.

If the system can in fact understand that a run race exists and a swim race exists why is it that only something that shows up as the legs in a triathlon.

I know I am not the first to ask, and I don’t want run plans or swim plans I don’t even follow those workouts in a tri plan just the bike part. But why is the system only allowing a taper/opener type week before a triathlon but not able to schedule around an actual half marathon someone wants to throw into the plan? It can see that a run race is a thing but unless it is tied to a swim and and a bike it can’t exist. I even tried to put it on the calendar within the plan and sure enough changes it to a bike.

With the new Ai stuff it seems like manual modifications should work better than in the past if you need to change things up the week leading up to a non bike event. So that is good. But that also seems like it would render things like the ftp prediction completely useless around that time.

What has been the reasoning for this type of event not being able to be scheduled so that the plan can build around it? Not wanting to clutter things up, I get, not wanting to suggest that they can offer a plan for a running event when they can’t I get. But the fact that I can take a running event, move it to a different day and the system says nope sorry that’s a bike race now seems crazy.

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Also, If triathlon plans/events are a thing - why is scheduling a duathlon not possible?

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This is a good question, and it comes with good feedback.

I, as much as anyone, would love to see more flexibility here in TR. :grinning_face:

There isn’t any well-defined reason for any of this stuff, as far as I know, other than the fact that we simply haven’t built out full running support yet.

We can’t plan for a running race because we don’t have the tools in place to do that properly (yet).

I am hoping that we can put that on our list at some point, but as far as I know, it’s not a high priority at the moment.

I’ll remind the team that this is something our athletes want, though!

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Right I understand this and wouldn’t want them personally even if I understand that others might be looking for those specific plans.

I guess I mostly just forgot that you can’t even just put a non cycling race other than triathlon on the calendar/in a plan for the plan to work around like it would for a B or C event.

I know it isn’t correct but an example is I put a 90 min TT B race on a day I tentatively (well not signed up) half marathon just to see what the plan would do as far as backing off that week. Its not technically the right kind of event but seems to have done something at least.

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I’ve done the same thing in the past. More than once. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I think the same logic applies here, though..

What good would putting a HM event on your calendar do if we don’t have the tools in place to prepare you for that event?

I agree, though, that it would be easy enough to at least allow them to be put in place for reference..