I am new to TR plans. My A event is five hours long, my TR calendar is preparing me for the event with nothing longer than two hours?? Can anyone tell me why? This is hard to trust, when traditionally I’d build up and do some long endurance workouts in the weeks before.

The short answer is: TR plans are, generally, geared toward people with limited time to train, so it (intelligently) replaces volume with intensity. That being said, I would also guess that you may not have edited your plan, if you actually have more time to train each week (or would just like to t…

You can also go into your plan and adjust you time availability. Make sure your long endurance day has the correct time avalible for you to ride. It usually adjusts accordingly in my experience.

Event preparation volume?

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Pbase May 24, 2025, 10:12pm 2

Welcome to the forums!

This question gets asked pretty frequently, so I’d suggest searching the forum for similar topics, but here’s one answer from TR that might help you understand how TR approaches this

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