Did a search but came up empty. I am planning on attempting this. What is the best practice for incorporating into the TrainerRoad Calendar and planning. I assume that I will hit RED status quickly.
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For me Festive 500 coincides with planned recovery week (Dec 22-28). My adjustments:
- mark 22.12 - 04.01 as Time Off
- keep 22-23.12 really off
- add 24-31.12 every day 2h30m workout
- 01.01 day off
- 02-04.01 1h30m workouts (recovery)
- resume TR plan 05.01
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First year doing it here and I’m going to wing it and see how angry my legs get. With my currently scheduled workouts I think I can get most of the mileage (that includes on long endurance ride) by picking flat Zwift routes. Moving my rest days strategically I think I can get there with a couple added lower intensity Z2 rides but we’ll see how mad the AI gets at me by what color my calendar turns.
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its only 30 something miles a day, no?
Not if you do the imperial version 
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May give this a try this year. Weather is looking decent in the mid Atlantic and I only have 1 day in the office from December 24-31st.
@svens Very much helpful. Appreciate the details. Does TR take into account rides on scheduled time off?
I am not in a recovery week. Wonder what happens if you just schedule workouts and let AT do its thing?
I’m planning on doing this this year.
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My approach is to add it as a stage race, with each day’s planned effort as a stage. That way I don’t feel bad about missing TR workouts. Luckily I had a planned recovery week on the 29th, so it shouldn’t impact my plan from Jan 5 onward.
For indoor rides during Festive 500, I prefer to do Zwift group rides, robopacers, and other “fun” things that I normally don’t do in training just to keep it from being too much of a slog. I tried doing a bunch of long endurance TR workouts last year, but that got old quick.
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Yes, it does. But not sure if it would adjust differently for loading and recovery weeks.
For loading week change, @marktron approach is better
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I’m going to give it a go too this year as I’m not working at all during the holiday period!
Will be mixing it up between TrainerRoad and outdoor rides - weather dependent of course.
I’m targetting mainly Zone 2
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Seems that if I go your recommended path, TR says that I need a new plan. May just go day by day, seeing how TR adjusts.
This is what I would do. Just do it but know you will need recovery after. The hardest thing for me is the weather, it’s rather cold. I think it got up to a nice high of 4c today with 30mph gusts. At least it was dry though!
Yes, that’s the most important. Just do it!
Ive already hit a red day 
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Weather is kinda the reason it exists…yeah yeah, this will get people all stirred up,
After 1 day, it went yellow. After today, red. 
Perhaps it’s time to revive this thread.
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I do two, maybe three afternoons of 5-6 hours on the trainer, amounting to 160km each, the rest low intensity. This reduces the times used up by it.
Looks like I will finish it tomorrow. 
At 326km. Rode through 2 RED days. I will seek to finish Mon, Tues, Wed. Should be doable.