Planning holidays and breaks in training plans seems to be a new feature (ish?), and one that i think is really useful.
I have a holiday coming up, of about 10 days, and no training in the calendar. I noticed this week is a recovery week, which made me wonder if this was coincidence, or some kind of a wind down for the holiday.
So this made me wonder how planned breaks actually tie in with the training plan. Does it pause planned traning and continue when you return, does it simply remove the planned rides, or is it more nuanced/ in depth than that. If the latter how does this work, and how does it affect the regular training regime?
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Hey @timnorman, good question!
There is a lot of good info relating to this in the support article Iāve linked below.
The fact that this current week is a recovery week is a bit of a coincidence, but since youāre coming off three weeks of hard workouts, itās time for a rest. 
This was part of the original plan based on preparing you for your A race next month. We canāt really āpostponeā your training since there are only a few weeks before that A race so weāll just make the most of the time you have between now and then.
Adaptive Training will consider things like where youāre at in your training before entering time off as well as any upcoming events on your calendar.
In your case, it does look like your upcoming workouts on the 15th, 17th, 31st, and 2nd are all noted as āalternates.ā Did you hand-pick those workouts for some reason? This might have an effect on how Adaptive Training considers those workouts in conjunction with your time off.
Sorry for my late reply. Thanks for the info. I think the āalternateā workouts will be because i changed the time/ length of workouts from the standard when setting the plan up?
Ahh, so you changed those workouts manually with Workout Alternates then?
No there was an option when i was in the plan builder to select how log. I want the workouts to be, and i chose the shorter ones
Ahh, okay. No that wouldnāt create workout alternates. Thatās simply a way to set custom max durations for your workouts for each day of the week.
Those Workout Alternates had to have been workouts that at some point you selected. If you arenāt partial to those, Iād recommend deleting them and updating your plan so that Adaptive Training can fill that time in as best as it can.
Let me know if you need a hand with this! 