To revive this, a bit old topic, and to reply the last question.
I am kinda in the middle of Gravel 200 plan, which ends somewhere in mid-April. And in 2 weeks i have a small 200km Brevet. so, its not that i “want” to shift the plan, i just think that it would be wise not to be overtrained a week leading into the long ride, and being in the middle of the program would mean a lot of shifting/deleting if i just remove and add a new plan. This way i would have to do a make-shift recovery week, and then see what to do with week after that, to kinda “get back into the game”.
Personally I’ve started deviating from the plan and skipping a workout here and there when needed and as advised in the forum and Neil Henderson on one of the podcasts.
Your situation is a bit different than skipping just a workout or two or shifting a few of them around. However perhaps skipping or moving a few along with dialing back the intensity here and there may be useful for you too.
In January work had me so busy I had to skip an entire week and part of a second, while towards the end of a plan. I decided to just pickup where I had left off by going backwards in the calendar, (so like whatever workout I missed on the 4th, I did on the 18th, and the workout from the 5th I did on the 19th and so on). Then I finished the plan (21 week all purpose), and did a week prep for the 4dp, but was sick the weekend I was supposed to to the full frontal, so I started the prep plan again when I felt better and did the full frontal.
I also started using the intensity setting, so if I’m not feeling it during a workout, I’ll slide the intensity to 75% or even 50% for a short portion, or even the whole workout if needed, so that I’m still getting the workout in and some benefit from it vs skipping it.
Now since it’s closer to riding weather, I chose a shorter block training plan. I went for max hours on a 2-1 plan, and do as many as I can and skip or move the workouts I’m not up to. Since I didn’t feel like I did very good on the full frontal because of the level mode vs erg, I’m doing all my training now in erg mode.
After this block is over, I’ll probably do a repeat of the 4dp prep plan and another full frontal.
Not sure if that gives you any ideas or not but after being told multiple times by members here to customize the plans and training sessions for me, I finally started taking their advice and it helps.
So basically, you are suggesting that I, in case of this need to skip the whole week, just ignore the dates on the calendar, and just continue where i left off.
Hm, albeit a bit confusing, that looks like the easiest solution, forget that it says like “March 7th” on the calendar, and just treat it as “today”.
Simply delete existing plan. Completed workouts will remain. Select the same plan with a new start date the desired days of delay. If you’re original plan started on Feb 1 and you want to delay 3 days, select a start date of Feb 4. Workouts in this plan that would have been scheduled before the actual current date won’t be added to your calendar. You’ll see all the future workouts in your original plan now showing 3 days later on the calendar. The same concept works if you go by ending dates of the plan instead of starting dates. Could it be easier to do? Yes, but it’s fairly easy to do once you get the idea and works well. I’ve done it few time myself.
You’re welcome and I’m glad it helped. It worked for me just fine, and if after restarting where you left off the first few workouts are too intense, just back down the intensity in the settings. After a few workouts your body will be ready to go 100% again.
Same here. I assumed that all my past workouts would disappear if I deleted a plan. Maybe I’ll do a super short plan to experiment with that.
With the switch to SYSTM, I lost all my past workouts in Sufferfest. Wish there was a way to back them up. At least I automatically upload to Strava and Training Peaks, so that the workouts are still there to reflect on, just outside of the wahoo ecosystem.
Deleting a plan leaves all completed workouts in place. I’ve done that lots, but I tested it the first time and I would test again for myself if it were the first time.
When you switched to SYSTM, your Sufferfest workouts should have ported over, although we lost some features (hopefully temporarily) that made it easy to see them. If they aren’t showing up in the calendar when scroll back in time, you might be able to contact the minions and have them put them back in the for you—although it’s been quite a while now.
Thanks for the tip and info Pete. Yes unfortunately all my sufferfest workouts never made it to SYSTM and I didn’t suspect they will. I can’t stand dealing with support. Either the software works or it doesn’t. I’m not into investing time and energy in tech support requests unless it’s something monumental like I can’t login, etc.
No, here i mean if i start the new plan with historical Start date, that all the workouts from NEW plan but BEFORE today will not appear. It would suck to start a new plan like that just to have duplicates and a bunch of “not done” workouts in the past.
I haven’t used Sufferfest before so i wouldn’t know about those disappearing.
If you just add a new plan, all your old, unfinished rides will still be there. To get rid if those, you have to delete the old plan.
Rereading, that may not have been what you meant. The new plan will NOT insert any rides before today. So you don’t get a bunch of new, historical, unfinished rides.
@peraklo If you simply want to move the plan ahead two weeks and structure some other activities or recovery around your event you can just delete the plan on the day when you start the other activities and then add back the plan but use end date rather than start date so that you aren’t starting the plan again from the beginning.
Otherwise you can just delete activities / reschedule activities around your event to get the right taper and recovery.
