If I’m on a TR plan and I know I’m going to do a long ride, say, in a weeks time how do I put it into the calendar so the planned workouts before it change in order to take it into account?
Hey @carytb 
It doesn’t look like you have a plan set in place yet.
If this is a one-off long ride you’ll be doing, then we recommend just recording the ride and letting the plan adjust future workouts after the effort. Or you can always swap a TR Workout to be a Solo/Group Ride effort.
Plans adapt in a forward movement; think of it as live adaptations to future workouts as you complete your training.
Alternatively, you can treat these long rides as B Events, so the plan schedules your training around them.
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Thanks. I’m a lapsed subscriber and thinking about trying TR again when I get back from holiday at the end of September. In my previous attempts to use TR it’s always fallen down for me as I do lot of unstructured long rides particularly in the summer. There is no pattern to them as it depends on our fickle UK weather and we tend to plan them a week or so ahead. If I decide to subscribe again I’ll try it with a mixture of C & B events and see what happens
Perfect! You can always reach out to me then and we can create one together.
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Just one more question.
If like today I did a 4+ HR ride on a day where say a 4 x 15 min Sweet Spot ride was scheduled in my plan and I managed to work those intervals into the ride and then associated the ride with workout would
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The ride count towards the Progression Levels as if I’d done the workout inside and
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Would the whole ride be considered for the Red Light Green Light feature.
Thanks
Ask away @carytb!
Yes to both, however, I would only match the workout if you actually followed the instructions for the interval work within those 4 hours. If you randomly fitted intervals into the ride, then it doesn’t count, haha.
Alternatively, you can break the ride file into 2-3, depending on when you are doing the interval work, by stopping and saving each piece.
For example, I ride for an hour unstructured (stop and save ride), do the interval work (stop and save ride), ride for 2 hours unstructured (stop and save ride).
With the example above, you will have 3 ride files sync to TR, and you’d match the correct one to the TR Workout.
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Many thanks for your help, I’ve just signed up for a year
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Awesome! Feel free to DM whenever
Does it do anything before the ride?
I have a B event in my calendar that is a 107 km gran condo. My TR plan is still giving me a threshold workout the day before. I am quite confident that I would not be able to do a 107 km ride a day later.
Do I just manually delete/ change the threshold ride to something more suitable?
Hey @P14Scott
I took a look at your account, and it looks like you’re on a General Fitness plan instead of an Event/Race-based plan, and the B Event is not being taken into consideration.
When you added the B Event to your plan, did you get prompted to recalculate the plan?
I don’t race, but I do like to do organized events whenever my schedule allows. I often add events after I have started the plan.
I did not get any prompt once I added the event.
I clicked on the analyze button to see if I would get any changes, it did not.
None of my events are really ever “A events” as I don’t train for any specific event.
Could this be the reason? I could try and pick one or two for next year and mark them as A.
@P14Scott, if it didn’t ask you to recalculate the plan, then you’re running into a known bug.
Bug:
Adding events to a General Fitness plan does not trigger the rebuild prompt on Desktop, iOS, or Android apps. Only the Web platform correctly prompts the athlete to rebuild their plan when an event is added.
Workaround:
You can keep the General Fitness plan, but for now, make sure to add any events through the web. Alternatively, you can create an Event/Race with an A Event and then add events along the way.
Awesome, thank you for the response and clarification.
Really appreciate all the work you and the team do. TR has really changed my riding fitness and vastly improved my enjoyment of cycling as a result.
Scott
You’re welcome! Super stoked to hear that!