Missing workout or doing outside ride - Confused whether to hit "Delete" or not?

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Hi, I have been totally confused for years on missing workouts or doing outside rides then deciding how to designate the TR workout that I was supposed to do that given day.

  1. if I just flat out miss a ride due to life or being too tired, thus deciding to skip altogether. . . do I always hit “Delete” or just leave it alone? If I leave alone, then the uncompleted ride lives there in my calendar maybe in a good way, in order to analyze how many missed rides I incur per block somehow?

  2. if i ride outside instead of doing that given day’s workout . . . again, should I be hitting “Delete” for the TR ride that day or is there some other ‘substitution’ or ‘skipped ride’ button I am missing? (Naturally I estimate the outside ride stress)

I feel these choices seems to limit getting to the end of the plan and/or accurately ending the block correctly. I hope someone can simply explain. Thanks

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  1. Leave the rides in the calendar to be able to see what was planned.
  2. If outside ride more or less matched the purpose of the workout I would associate the outside ride with the workout (on the website click on the outside ride in the calendar and then associate). Otherwise I would let them stand side by side.
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Thanks!