Scheduling a race

Put an upcoming race into your races before you start rearranging the workouts around it by hand.

A race you enter is yours, not the plan’s. It sits in your races from the day you enter it to its result, and any plan whose dates cover it shows it as a Scheduled Race: it takes that day, the day’s planned workouts step aside while it holds it, and its distance counts toward the week’s total. It is not an ordinary workout and does not sit on top of one.

Because the race is yours, changing the plan never loses it. Regenerating the plan, shortening the block or starting a new plan leaves your races where they are, and the plan shows them again.

Scheduling your primary race

Your primary race comes from your Training Focus — the single direction your current training serves. Set the race name, distance and date there. A target time is optional.

The goal race follows the focus. If you correct the name or target time, the race updates without reshaping the block. A new date changes where the block is headed and may require the future weeks to be rebuilt. A new distance means a different race: the old one stays in your races, off the plan, and your coach will tell you so.

Adding a tune-up race

Give your coach the race’s name, date and distance, plus an optional target time or note. It is saved even when no plan covers the date yet: a plan you start later shows it.

Only one race on a plan can occupy a calendar day, and it must fit inside the plan’s weekly mileage limit. If it would push the week beyond that limit, the plan refuses the change instead of quietly making race distance free.

You can have more than one tune-up race across a block. Use them when they are part of the training story, not simply because an event appears on your wider calendar. For a race you want to run as training, off the plan, ask your coach to take it off the plan; its day gets its workouts back.

Changing what is scheduled

Your coach can edit a tune-up race’s name, date, distance, target time and notes. Moving it frees its old day, which gets its workouts back.

The primary race is different: change it through your training focus so the plan can reconcile the race and the weeks leading to it together.