Scheduling a race

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

A Scheduled Race — a race-day marker inside your plan — replaces planned running on that date and contributes its distance to the week’s total. It is not an ordinary workout and does not sit on top of one.

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 plan keeps that primary race aligned with the focus. If you correct only the name or target time, those details can update without reshaping the block. A new date or distance changes where the block is headed and may require the future weeks to be rebuilt.

Adding a tune-up race

A tune-up race belongs to the active plan rather than replacing your primary focus. Give your coach its name, date and distance, plus an optional target time or note.

The date must fall inside the current plan, and only one scheduled race can occupy a calendar day. The race replaces same-day planned running and 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.

Changing what is scheduled

Your coach can edit a tune-up race’s name, distance, target time and notes. A date move is currently limited to another day in the same plan week; ask the coach to explain the available route if the event moves farther.

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