Scheduling 6 months of Master plan training

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I am scheduling 6 months of training for an event at start of July. 2 more months of base, 2 of build and 2 of specialty. I have several minor events planned during that time too. It is not clear how scheduling works. Do I need to add each of the blocks individually and over time add subsequent events? Or is there a way to define the volume and type of plan (masters) and the system will prompt me for start and end dates, as well as event dates?

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Use plan builder, just fill date of your races and choose a specialty

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Thx. Only remaining question is why it did not add a ramp test to the start of the plan.

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If you did 10 indoor workouts you don’t need to do them anymore aiftp will estimate your ftp

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Yep, use Plan Builder. Enter known events (with correct type/level/etc), time off (if you know it, and add it as you find out), etc. A, B, C events are handled differently, so try to be honest about that - A/B will have a taper and can have leg openers scheduled automatically, C races tend to be ignored (no taper).

I usually opt to adjust each block so I can move some days around and adjust the workout length. I also select the “leg openers before races” option - that’ll give you a quick 30min workout with a few bursts of power the day before A/B races (similar to the warm-up I’d do before a 'cross or crit race).

If there’s enough data in the system, it might not prompt for a ramp, and use AI FTP instead. You can always do a manual ramp if you think the selected FTP value is wrong.

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Thx when is the ftp updated? Do I need to do another ride after the date when the new ftp will be calculated, ( reason I ask is I am sick now but keen to see what my new ftp is after a month of base training)
Thx

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When I set up my new plan builder it similarly did not start with a ramp test or AI detect. thought that was strange, and it kept my old FTP which was very much out of date. So I chose a standard ramp test from “workouts” and scheduled it for day #1 of plan and selected from it the AI FTP detect option. That worked out fine, but I had to self add the ramp test. I did not choose the automatic AI detect option during plan builder, b/c sometimes I do like to do a ramp test.