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.

Move the race date first, then ask your coach to refit the training that still lies ahead.

The race date anchors the peak, taper and final week. Changing the date makes the old arrangement unsuitable, but it does not erase the training you have already completed.

Refit the same race to its new date

Update the date on your Training Focus — the direction and event your current training serves. Changing the date does not quietly move the plan’s weeks in the background.

After you agree to proceed, your coach can refit the active plan to the new race date. Past weeks stay unchanged and the future is rebuilt. In the current week, days that have already passed stay in place while today and the days ahead can be laid out again. The plan, completed activities and calendar history remain connected.

Once you agree to proceed, the refit takes effect immediately. There is no separate preview to approve first. Ask your coach to explain what changed and why, then review the upcoming weeks together immediately afterward.

Upcoming custom sessions can be replaced

Refitting rebuilds future weeks from the plan’s structure. A session you or your coach built by hand in those weeks may be replaced. The result names those sessions so you can reapply any that still belong.

If the race moved later

Extra weeks do not automatically earn a higher peak. The rebuilt plan can hold its peak, add another lighter-and-build sequence, or lengthen an earlier phase according to the selected plan and the time available. Review where the long runs and taper now land rather than filling the added space with more mileage.

If the race moved earlier

The shorter block has less room for race-specific work. The rebuild reduces time at peak mileage first and may shorten later parts of the plan within its limits. Some long runs or rehearsals may no longer fit. Read the stated adjustments with your coach and reconsider the race target if the missing work was important to it.

If the race itself changed

This kind of refit is for a new date at the same distance. A different distance needs a plan built for that event; stretching or trimming the old block would leave its progression aimed at the wrong race.

If the focus no longer has a race date at all, there is nothing to anchor the block to. Choose whether to rebuild around the new focus or close the current block instead.

Ask your coach

“My marathon moved to October 18. Refit my plan to the new date.”
“Show me what changes if my race is three weeks earlier.”
“My race changed from a half marathon to a 10K. What should I do with this plan?”

Setting a training focus — Tell your coach whether you are preparing for a race, building toward a distance, or training for general fitness before choosing a plan.
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.
Tapering for your race — Reduce volume while preserving rhythm and a little intensity so fatigue can fall without trying to add last-minute fitness.

Last updated September 18, 2026