I’m trying to create a plan and it seems to be bugged. 1st image is what was recommended. 2nd image is the same thing but shifted one day down to match better with my schedule (shows as overtrained?). 3rd image is what I would like my schedule to be. This schedule is for the future after my current plan ends in May. My current plan is setup exactly as the 3rd scenario and it showed as yellow/adjusted when I made it a couple weeks ago.
Calendars are hard.
Use the third one and see how you get on. Likely it will be OK, but if it starts to hurt a bit, you can nudge some things down a bit.
The warning is just that, a warning. Take the warning on board, but the informed choice is yours to make.
There isn’t a TR swat team that comes round and whacks you if you do something other than the recommendation.
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The first two schedules are identical, they are just shifted by one day, there should be no warning.
The third one is not, and a warning is warranted. You are stacking four workouts back-to-back, including two hard workouts on Friday and Saturday.
I gave up on plan bulder. As soon as I moved something or put a solo outside ride in, I got the warning. Even if it was less TSS than what PB had originally prescribed. Seems ultra cautious, in my case I had no faith that it would deliver the fitness required for my goals this year.
Yes. I understand that schedule warranted a warning compared to the other two, but it brings some skepticism because of the bugged 2nd scenario. One more thing, (I should’ve mentioned this in the post, my bad) this schedule is for the future after my current plan ends (May). My current plan is setup exactly as the 3rd scenario and it showed as yellow/adjusted when I made it a couple weeks ago.
But what does the following Monday and previous Sunday look like?
I tried to take this into account. April 26th-27th is the TX MS 150, which is the event for my current plan. The plan scheduled a recovery week after this, ends on May 4th. It doesn’t matter if I start the new plan 1 week or 1 month after this, the same error as the 2nd scenario stills occurs
Welp. Don’t trust the robot if you know better
Why?
It goes against some basic recommendations and principles, namely that you should follow a hard day with an easy day or a day off. (A long endurance day is also hard.)
“Your intense workouts might be too close together, potentially leading to overtraining. Consider scheduling them with at least one easy day or rest day between intense workouts.”
It’s just guidance. TR made the warnings about as wishy-washy as they could, so you’d understand that if you believe you can do it, that the choice is yours. 2 or 3 weeks into either plan, you wouldn’t know the difference between them, most likely.
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