Criterium Build Glitch?

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Hi guys,

I was hoping you could take a look at my TrainerRoad calendar and help me make sense of what I’m seeing.

For the record, I’m a fan of TrainerRoad and I genuinely believe the platform has made me faster. That said, I’m a bit concerned about the prescribed training in my upcoming Build phase.

I have an A criterium race at the end of May, with my Build phase starting on March 2nd. My understanding, especially as a masters athlete, is that I should generally be limited to two hard workouts per week. However, my plan is prescribing three hard sessions, and in some cases two are scheduled back-to-back. This feels like a recipe for burnout, and while I don’t plan on following it as written, I’m trying to understand why it’s being prescribed in the first place.

I’ve attached a screenshot of the first two weeks of my Build phase for reference. I’m also a bit puzzled as to why I’m being assigned workouts that are flagged as “not recommended.”

In the past, the chat feature was helpful for getting clarification, but lately I haven’t been able to connect with anyone. Any insight or feedback would be greatly appreciated, as I want to make sure I’m setting myself up for success heading into my key race.

Thanks,
Attila

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Looks like your “Not Recommended” workout is a pinned workout, meaning the AI isn’t going to be able to change it. You’ll have to unpin it (which you can do on Desktop by right-clicking).

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For 3 vs 2, I’m 47ish and did 3 hard workouts for my Base and Build phases, overriding the suggestion to only do 2. Then, when my specialty phase started 3 weeks ago, I dropped down to 2 hard workouts, against the new suggestion to do 3 :slight_smile: I don’t know what the right answer really is for this. (My A race is a crit series in July, FWIW.)

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That solved it. The Thursday workouts were pinned, which was throwing everything off. Once I unpinned them, the schedule made sense again.

Not sure how they got pinned in the first place, but thank you — this helped a lot.

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