Those choices on which phase to emphasize are based largely on the Experience you choose. Lower Experience leans on Base, Higher Experience leans on Build, and then Specialty for the highest.
You can see that in the short summary on the Overview page (around the last sentence).
So, you can play with that by trying different Experience settings and look at the Overview. Choose the one that fits your needs or preferences.
That basically says that if you are elite, POL is best for you. I would suspect that TR has relatively few elite athletes who are following their plans rigorously. You might be someone for whom POL works, but I believe you are modifying the plans to achieve your goals, and so aren’t necessarily the target market for the TR plans in any case.
I only entered 1 A race, and told the plan builder to ignore the C race in January - it seemed to work OK for me.
This is really slick! Nice work TR. A few observations:
Noted above but…I added a plan with two stage races. Then realized I started the whole thing a week late, so I deleted the entire plan. The workouts disappeared, but stage races stayed in the calendar. So far as expected. But plan builder didn’t pick up the stage races when I went back through the wizard. I had to delete and recreate them.
When adding stages to a stage race, please please please pre-set the calendar to the day after the previous stage.
I just finished SSBMV1. The longest week is 6 h. So I told plan builder that my last 6 weeks was 4-6 hour average. It then wanted to set me at LV and warned me about changing that to MV. Every MV plan but SSB1 is probably > 6 h / week and understand erring on the side of caution (i.e. less volume)., But in this instance the plan builder’s LV recommendation didn’t make sense.
First go with the planner, I only had (2) A races, and it worked for me!?
Is anyone else having issues with the plan not scheduling on their calendar?
My custom plan isn’t loading to my calendar either.
A couple of interface notes. I’m using the web calendar view on a pretty large monitor and this menu for updating the plan displays pretty small, so it requires scrolling to see all the workouts. Might be helpful if it could adjust to use more monitor space when its available.
Also once you do scroll to the right, it won’t let me scroll back to the left.
I too was a little underwhelmed with the options for triathletes but I am a simple use-case which just one goal event and plenty of time until then. I’ll probably play around a little more with filling the time between now and the event to see what comes up.
What I’d like to see is the option to add in more sessions of swim/run so that we can have a enhanced-low-volume for example.
In general I found the flow quite good and clear but I did manage to eff up multiple times just trying to enter my goal event and accidentally clicking outside the box.
Editing to add that I used the plan builder to “fill” in some of the extra time and love how it expanded the build phase for me.
I think this was mentioned above but my big “A” race is at the beginning of August and I’m just starting my bike training now. With the plan builder it’s telling me to repeat SSBI after my build phase, and I believe this should be added to my actual base phase, and according to the “Too much time” article I should repeat SSBII, not SSBI.
It’s stated above, but that article is a bit out of date and does not have their preferred suggestions.
The Plan Builder is doing what they recommend now. They will be updating the article to match.
This is exactly right. The Plan Builder represents an evolution of training philosophy, and we will be updating our Help Center articles to match the new recommendations 
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Gave it a try. Seems pretty cool but I was a bit shocked by the plan it suggested.
I put in a 40 week window of training up to an ‘A’ rolling road race and got the suggestion
I’m fairly confused by this structure as it seems counter to anything I’ve heard anyone do, or discuss on the podcasts. Seems weird to split up SSB 1&2 or to go from SSB into Specialty like this.
Is there any way to tell the program to not schedule anything more than 90 minutes on a weekday ( or any other number for that manner)? Thanks
Very cool, great job TR team!
@iamholland can you let us know what inputs you had for the Plan Builder that yielded this result? We have an engineer set aside to tackle any errors like this that pop up.
Not specifically like that. But you may get shorter ones when using the lower volume settings.
You can always cut a workout short, or look to see if there is a shorter variation available and use that instead of the default option.
I usually go for a mid-volume plan but only take the 2 weekday interval sessions, add another 2 weekday sessions of endurance work, ignore the weekend workouts and go instead go for a progressively longer outside ride. I end up doing 7-9 hours weekly, but only 2 workouts are from the plans. Would be nice to eventually be able to set up rules like these. For now having the ability to build the bare bones planes and the manually add our changes is still super useful.
@janneseppala Do you have any additional information on what your inputs were? What discipline those A races were, volume selection, etc? For some reason it looks like it skipped the start date and events steps.
@Bestevaer can you provide a bit more information on what events you added, and what disciplines they were?
