Hey all, quick pan builder question.
After my three weeks off I started riding again and built my 2021 season starting a couple of weeks ago. I set my start date earlier this month using plan builder high volume TT and climbing RR for national TT and LOTOJA next year… hopefully 
My first scheduled event isn’t until the middle of April or so. Despite the time, pan builder has me only doing two weeks of SSB 1 before a rest week this coming week, then starting SSB 2 with my next break luckily falling on the week of Christmas.
I don’t remember SSB 1 being so short last year. Should I go ahead and trust the plan, or might I have input some data incorrectly.
Let me know if you need any more specifics to help clarify. I should also mention nationals and LOTOJA are towards jun-sept 2021. Cheers and happy Thanksgiving to you all 
You probably don’t have enough time for a full BBS cycle. Plan builder shortens the “base” then when you indicate that you’re an experienced athlete - you probably put intermediate or advanced.
You can try out how it looks differently when you select beginner
Plan Builder gave me what a first looked like a real mish-mash of Base and Build. Three weeks of SSB II, then four weeks of SPB. Back to SSB I for four weeks, then into SPB again for a full eight weeks.
I threw caution to the wind and went with it. Have to say I’m about to finish my first round of SPB and so far, so good. I have tweaked a couple of planned SSB I workouts in the upcoming phase but nothing drastic.
As @schmidt said, I told Plan Builder that I had experience.
@schmidt and @PusherMan
I don’t see why I don’t have time for a ful cycle considering most my races are June and beyond, but I guess I will go ahead and trust the process.
That being said, I did indeed say I am experienced. And I can’t say I would particularly miss more weeks of SSB 1. I just wanted to make sure I hadn’t messed something up and was starting my season wrong. Thanks!
Did you mark your April race as an A race? Think if so then as an experienced rider Plan Builder would have prioritised giving you a full Specialty phase and taper for that race over needing more base. If you designate your April race as a B or C race with your first A race being in June then I think it should schedule a full Base-Build-Specialty plan and have you just training through any earlier races.
@cartsman
I think I did mark it A, but only because hardly any races are actually…scheduled, that I figured why not. I could see how this is impacting my plan now, but I don’t see any reason to change it. Do you see any reason to change? I feel like my aerobic engine has more than a decade of long, hard rides. After my three week rest I came back feeling better than ever and my FTP was less than 10 watts off my previous all-time best. I’m guessing I should roll with what I have?
And as a side note, messing with it might mean changing the week of Christmas to a training week and I don’t want that, lol.
There are other ways to ensure Christmas is an easy week! I’d say since you’re doing longer events which will require quite a bit of sweet spot and threshold training anyway, then it’s fine to leave as is. If you were doing short punchy events with a lot of intensity but not much long and steady stuff then I think it would be more important to make sure you were going into Build/Speciality off the back of a full base phase.