Planning a 1 week vacation with Plan Builder

[Hurley975]

I am just finishing SSB MV2 and plan to move on to build next. I am wanting to try the plan builder for the rest of my season for mtb racing this summer. However, I am going on vacation for a week in March. How do I account for this using plan builder? Thanks

[Bryce]

Unfortunately, we do not have an optimized way to deal with this scenario at the moment. From our FAQ:

@bnied

What if I need to take time off?
We’re currently working on the ability to add in planned vacation or other time off. We don’t have an ETA for when this will be done yet.

As for how this situation should be handled:

@Bryce

In the case of a training interruption due to sickness, injury, or vacation, our current recommended course of action is to keep your plan intact and leave your skipped weeks as “skipped” in your Calendar.

Then, on the week when you are jumping back into the plan, select the -1 versions of each workout to allow you to more comfortably ramp back into training. “-” versions of a workout typically decrease the duration and the number of intervals prescribed in the workout, which lowers your weekly TSS as you’re getting back into the swing of things. You can learn more about alternate workout versions here .

If a workout does not have an alternate workout version, or if the “-” version is still slightly too difficult, we recommend decreasing the intensity to between 90-95% so that the workouts feel tough but manageable.

I know this is not an ideal solution, but we are working to program more complex logic into Plan Builder so that eventually we can to handle all this for you. In the meantime, this is our recommended course of action for keeping you on track for your events.

Let me know if you have any questions about this!

[DingleTower]

I have my season made up in plan builder. I’m on vacation next week. I let the builder do its thing and then edited a few around my vacation dates. I know I won’t be riding so I’m currently adding volume before I leave doing SSBMV. Adding a bit of time to each planned workout and adding some easy endurance in on the rest days.

I hadn’t planned to do much different on my week back but doing the -1 versions on return is a good idea.

A ramp test was planned for the Monday after but I bumped it back a week. So I’ll do a week to get back into it and then retest.

[Textuality]

On the general theme… any suggestions for ways to “push back” a recovery week? I’ll be away for a week next month, and it comes two weeks after my scheduled recovery week. I feel like it would be better for me to continue training normally for two weeks longer than planned, then recover whilst I’m away with some light exercise.

Not sure what I’d want to target in terms of TSS for the extra weeks though. I would probably struggle to do much more than what’s in the final week before the scheduled recovery week.