Training plan history or keeping any started plan on the calendar

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When I look at my training history on my calendar, i see no evidence that i was following a training plan at any given time. When a plan is created, followed for some time, but then deleted, it would be nice to see that i was following a plan at the time, rather than it just being removed without a trace. Right now, I have no idea what plans i’ve tried over the years (I have tried many), and it would be nice to see which ones i have tried and which ones i haven’t. There might also be some value in seeing that for the first half of the year, i was following one plan, saw improvement, then in the second half, tried another plan, but didn’t see as much improvement.

Maybe this already exists and i’m just missing something? I have yet to complete a plan in its entirety, i somehow always end up deleting a plan to start a new one, so maybe thats what i’m missing? I’m coming close right now though, i just entered specialty phase, but decided edit the plan to push out the end date, as well as add some early spring races, in order to get back into build.

Thanks!

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Thanks for the feedback, it does sound like that would be a cool feature. I will pass your suggestion along to the rest of the TR team!

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I have the same complaint. Now I make a note on my calendar when I start my plans and phases so I can look back and see what I was doing. Another complaint I have is if you go in and change something in the plan it moves the start date to that date instead of leaving it where the plan actually started.

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Good feedback here, thank you all for this.

On the new web calendar, we show a color-coded bar underneath the TSS chart delineating each phase within your training plans, both current and historical. (Note: some older plans don’t display here, but all plans going forward will). These bars do, however, disappear if you delete the plan. Perhaps there should be a way to end (but not delete) a training plan in progress—I know I have personally ended plans early in the past for a variety of reasons, but it’s definitely still useful to see the plan on my calendar during the time period when I was following it.

This is on our long list of things to fix. We’ve temporarily put it aside to devote our engineering resources to some bigger upcoming feature improvements, but it’s absolutely on our radar (it drives me nuts, personally, and I really want to fix it!)

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