Back-to-Back interval days for mediocre performers?

Hi Athletica community,

I have two concerns/issues with my training plan.

First, I have two back-to-back interval sessions in the next 4 weeks (Saturday short HIIT, Sunday threshold intervals). When I started here mid July they were typically Wednesday and Saturday. At my performance level, I have serious doubts that this is a good idea (and so I don’t do it). Is this intentional with some logic behind or just a flaw of the simulator distributing workouts :slight_smile: ?

Second, I don’t like double run days. I would like to have double days as one run and a bike, if two sessions are necessary. I understand that there might theoretically be an advantage of running twice but with the modest distance I run weekly this doesn’t seem necessary. Can I somehow force the system to do exactly one run on a run day?

Thanks for any comments

Achim

Hi Achim

Can you share a screenshot of your training week here please? Also what is your A race? Is it duathlon, triathlon and did you put any restraints into your plan when you created it? (example, no training on certain days?

Hi , these are two example weeks, one with back-to-back intervals and the second one with double run days (actually two of them). I don’t do duathlon or triathlon but running and cycling races separately. So I pick my next important race as main sport (currently running) and then switch the main sport to cycling after that. In the weekly schedule I force the plan to have days with the secondary sport. Basically I want to train both all the time but switch priorities depending on the next event. Thank you for reading this stuff :slight_smile: Achim