Thanks for your response Nate.
Apologies for the poor communication.
I fundamentally want to be able to access the Plan Builder flow after I have initially set it up and make wholesale changes to it. I.e. this:
There are 2/3 main reasons I would want to do this rather than delete and re-apply the plan from scratch:
- My workout day preferences (& now max durations) are lost from the flow when I start from scratch.
- My plan start date is lost from the flow when I start from scratch. This means I have to remember to make a note of the original start date. When the new plan is applied, it shows up in my calendar from the later date, not the original date as well.
- It takes a lot of steps to go through the process of deleting and starting again.
At the moment, I can only make tweaks to certain parts from disparate places. In my first post I listed some examples of what I think I can and can’t do from various places.
This graph only sems to now exist while I’m initially creating my Plan as flagged in Can I see my training plan 'overview' page? - #5 by Julio1869
So if I moved my A race or added B races, I never see the holistic outcome in this graph. If I switch volume in one or multiple phases, I never get an overview of the impact. This graph is excellent. Please let me see it again.
The reason this really matters is that I tend not to have my A races for the following year nailed I can’t be alone here) before I start my base phase. So I know the plan is going to change a lot.
Multiple Places
I actually don’t care that much about being able to access and change my Custom plan from lots of places. If it was under just one of Training Plans or Career wouldn’t bother me. The changes that can be made directly from Calendar (add, remove races and changing the volume and day distribution of phases) I would often happily go directly back into the Plan Builder flow and edit there. Because when I do these things from Calendar, I don’t see an overview of the impact - the overall impact on TSS, distribution of phases etc…
Changing the workout days and max duration makes lots of sense within a phase from Calendar. But these are tweaks. Not wholesale changes.
The bigger the change, the more I crave seeing the overview.
I can’t really do anything here. There’s not a lot of information and it doesn’t even link to somewhere to show me more information or make any real edits. I can change the name or delete. I kind of ask what is the point?
My final point is that I’ve spent a lot of time looking at this tool in desktop, mobile and webapp and tried every which way to play with it. I’m still confused about what I can do where and get frustrated with bugs in the process flow. This knowledge degrades during the year while I’m not making major changes. The Support articles don’t really help. So my last request was to beef up the explanations and examples and FAQs relating to this tool.
Sorry for the long post.