Here’s the case I made back in March last year for a PUSH DAY. This functionality would relieve the rider from a strict 7-day program (or 8 or 9) by allowing the insertion of an additional recovery day without interrupting the rest of the program or having to skip workouts. At 62, I generally am good with a 7-day plan but when need an additional rest day I have to perform calendar backflips. I LOVE the push week–I always push (and thus clear) the following week to the one I’m on, allowing me to drag and drop things into that week to accomplish the push day or two. It’s a lot of fiddling which could be solved with a push day. Of course that push would only affect workouts and would retain my races and other manual insertions into the calendar. I still think this is a capital idea that would allow the athlete to follow the plan and the body more closely. I just went through a bout of gastroenteritis (four days of diarrhea) and would have simply pushed my workouts out one day at a time, then resumed when my body felt ready. The push week is already one of my favorite tools in the TR calendar. The Push Day would be a more finely tuned and more convenient feature for all riders, but especially for people whose lives don’t necessarily operate on the classic 7-day cycle.
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