One thing I find confusing about the training plans is how to make adjustments with the recovery weeks.
I have a trip planned in a couple weeks (4 from now) and my low intensity recovery week is two weeks before that. What I’d like to do is swap those two weeks. Is the easiest way to do that by simply adding my own, more intense workouts over my recovery week and skip the workouts during my trip? I already added a trip to my calendar so it cleared those workouts but didn’t make any changes before or after that I could tell.
This can be tricky because we try to avoid giving 3 or 4 weeks of work between rest weeks.
If your plan is based on an event, then we tend to build it working backward from that date and give recovery weeks where they make sense.
When you add in time off, though, things can get tricky. The best solution in those scenarios form our point of view, is to still follow the plan because oftentimes pushing out your rest week to line up with your time off can result in a few too many weeks of work, which can actually become unproductive.
If you can set things up where you don’t have more than 3 or 4 weeks of work between rest, then doing things the way you suggested could work well. Otherwise, I’d say follow the plan.
If you could post screenshots of your training plan recent and upcoming people could probably help give some ideas on how to make it a good compromise in following plan like Eddie suggested while not over doing the training recovery.
I am having a similar issue with my vacation starting Friday the week of my recovery week. trip continues into my 1st strong week of a block. Not great.
In my case after a hard block vo2max intervals and over-under work… I decided to manually add sweetspot intervals into my recovery week (on my normal Tu/Thr workout days) and have vacation be the TR recovery week. Sweetspot hasn’t been in plan for awhile, good to get some lower effort work, plus can play it by ear for the two workouts that week then. Training for a 240mile gravel race, so figure a bit more sweetspot probably doesn’t hurt.
