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?
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.
I think I’ve rode 45 or so extra minutes vs my normal plan volume and am already ahead of being able to complete it with just normal training volume. Zwift and Tempus Fugit/Robopacer groups makes this rather easy.
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