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Following a training block
Understand the dated stretch of training you are following, close it when it is finished, and carry its evidence into what comes next.
A block is the dated stretch of weeks you train through as one connected piece of work.
Your Training Block — the planned weeks, completed activities and final results for that stretch — keeps the original aim and the training that actually happened together. It can lead to a race, build toward a distance or serve a general-fitness focus.
Seeing the block you are in
Ask your coach to show the block’s dates, number of weeks, planned shape and current status. While it is underway, the comparison covers only the days that have arrived. Today’s unfinished workout is still pending, not already missed.
Changes made during the block stay part of the same block. Moving a workout or rebuilding future weeks does not create a stack of athlete-facing versions. Completed work remains history, and the final plan can still be compared with the direction the block started from.
Closing a finished block
When the block is over, ask your coach to close it. Closing calculates and freezes its Block Execution Metrics — the comparison of planned and completed running across mileage, run days, quality sessions, long runs, missed workouts and workouts run on a different day.
Closing is a review action, not a deletion. The block, its activities and the changes made along the way remain available in your history.
Closing and retiring answer different questions
Closing records how a block ended. Retiring answers whether you are still following the plan. A block can be closed while its plan remains active, or a plan can be retired without closing the block.
Using the result next time
The closed comparison gives your coach evidence for the next block: how much running you completed, how consistently the run days fit, and whether the quality sessions and long runs were realistic. It can support a small increase, a gentler starting point or a different weekly shape.
The numbers are evidence, not a verdict on you. Review what made the block workable or difficult, then change one useful thing at a time so the next comparison remains meaningful.
Ask your coach
“Show me the training block I am in now and what it is building toward.”
“Close this block and tell me how the planned work compared with what I ran.”
“Compare my last two blocks and suggest one change for the next one.”
Related
- How your plan is built — See how recent running, weekly growth, long runs, quality work and recovery are combined into the plan you review.
- Tapering for your race — Reduce volume while preserving rhythm and a little intensity so fatigue can fall without trying to add last-minute fitness.
- Coach assessments — Save a dated coaching judgement about a stretch of training while preserving the focus, evidence and conclusion the coach used at the time.
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