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Cross-training in your plan
Add cycling, swimming, rowing, climbing and other aerobic work to your plan, then see what you completed without turning it into running mileage.
You can put aerobic work from another sport into the same plan as your runs. Tell your coach what you do, when you normally do it, and whether it replaces a run or sits alongside one.
AgentRunCoach calls this Cross-Training — planned aerobic work that is not a running session. It includes cycling, swimming, rowing, hiking, elliptical and paddling sessions, winter sports, climbing and multisport efforts.
Adding a cross-training day
Ask for the activity and the day in ordinary language. You can add one session, replace a run, or make it part of the shape of every week.
The plan records the kind of activity you intend to do, along with any duration and note you give your coach. It does not invent intervals, targets or a sport-specific workout for you. AgentRunCoach remains your running coach; the cross-training entry makes the rest of your training visible around the runs it is helping you prepare for.
How your activity pairs with the plan
A recorded aerobic activity on the same day can mark the planned cross-training as completed. More than one compatible activity can belong to that day, which matters for a multisport effort recorded as separate legs.
Pairing is deliberately broad today. A planned cycling day and a recorded swim are both aerobic cross-training, so the swim can satisfy the day. AgentRunCoach does not guess from an activity’s title, distance or proximity to the plan: the recorded activity type has to identify it as aerobic work.
If no activity was recorded, you can still tell your coach that you completed a past or present cross-training day. That manual mark records completion only; it does not invent a duration or training score.
What completion means
Cross-training is marked complete rather than graded against a prescription. There is no run-style score, and its distance never becomes running mileage. Its recorded duration can contribute to your Cardio Load — aerobic cross-training time totalled across the training block — keeping the work visible without pretending that cycling miles and running miles are interchangeable.
A competition is not always a running race
A bike race, Zwift race or duathlon stays cross-training, even when it is an important event and even when part of it is a run. Running races that your plan builds toward are scheduled and reviewed separately.
Ask your coach
“Replace Wednesday's easy run with a bike ride.”
“I swim every Monday. Can you build my running around that?”
“Mark today's cross-training as done — I recorded a rowing session.”
Related
- How non-running work counts — Cycling, swimming, lifting and yoga all belong in your plan — but they are counted in different ways, and some are not counted at all.
- Building a hybrid week — Combine running, aerobic cross-training, strength and mobility in one week while keeping each kind of work visible on its own terms.
- Changing a session — Change one part of a planned session, move it to another day, or swap two sessions without rebuilding either workout.
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