How your plan adapts

Reshape the training ahead when your availability, recovery or recent work changes without losing the part of the plan you already followed.

Your schedule changes when you and your coach decide that the training ahead no longer fits.

An activity, a missed week or a check-in does not silently rewrite anything. Those are evidence for the next coaching decision. You can change one session, reshape one week or rebuild the remaining weeks, depending on how wide the problem is.

Change only what needs changing

Keep a local problem local. Move or edit one session when the rest of the week still works. Ask to reshape one week’s mileage when that week is the problem. Rebuild the weeks ahead when your availability, recovery or intended training load has changed for longer than a few days.

Your Training Plan — the active schedule you are following — remains the same plan when future weeks are rebuilt. Finished weeks stay attached to it, along with completed activities and the history already on your calendar. The current week keeps days that have passed; only today and the days ahead are available to reshape.

Review a rebuild before accepting it

For a general rebuild, your coach first shows a proposal. Read the changed weeks, the reasons for any limits and the list of custom sessions that would be replaced. Nothing changes until you approve that proposal.

Refitting a moved race is the exception. Once you agree to proceed, the refit takes effect without a separate preview. See When your race moves for what is preserved and what can change.

The rebuild uses your current saved choices and recent training. It can change how mileage rises and falls, which days you run, where long runs land and when harder sessions appear, while leaving the completed part of the block alone.

Custom sessions ahead may be replaced

A rebuild lays the upcoming weeks out again from the plan’s structure. Sessions you or your coach built by hand in those weeks are named before confirmation, but they do not carry through automatically. Reapply the ones you still want after the rebuild.

Know what is recorded

Confirmed changes of this kind are saved in your plan’s history with the date and reason. Rebuilding the future, refitting a moved race and reshaping a week’s mileage are recorded this way.

Small edits are deliberately quieter. Moving a workout, changing one step or tuning a session toward the same objective does not create a separate history entry. Your plan records the decisions that changed its direction, not every piece of routine editing.

Ask for the result, not the mechanism

Tell your coach what changed and what now feels wrong: the days you missed, the time you have, how recovery is going and whether the issue affects one session or the rest of the block. Your coach can then choose the smallest useful change and explain what will be preserved before applying it.

Ask your coach

“I missed most of last week. Help me adjust the training ahead.”
“My legs have felt heavy for a week. What should change in my plan?”
“Show me what would change before we reshape the rest of this block.”

Changing your weekly mileage — Change one week's running or request a different load for the remaining block, then review how the plan distributes and limits the new mileage.
When your race moves — Refit the weeks ahead to a new race date while preserving past training and understanding what a shorter or longer block changes.
Weekly check-ins — Record how you feel and how much time you have, then use the latest check-in when you next build or reshape the plan.

Last updated September 18, 2026