I don’t think I’m on a high fitness level… and now that I’ve removed the constraints (and also switched from setting my own hours to letting Athletica decide) I am remembering a bit more about why I set the constraints originally and can clarify a bit more. I don’t believe that I had run sessions over 2 hours, but that I had days of over 2 hours of training. Such as a 1 hour 45 minute run plus 30 minutes of strength and conditioning.
So far, things are looking ok with the current plan - there were no significant changes. A couple of runs are now over 90 minutes, but only by a minute or two. And I have another couple of days with a run over an hour plus a strength and conditioning sessions, but both of those are at or under 1 hour and 40 minutes for combined time. I’ll leave it as it is and report back if anything changes. And I’ll be keeping an eye on my next training cycle to see how things go without constraints when the cycle is initially created.
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I’ve removed the weekend time limits. I’ll see what happens over the next few weeks. I’m currently in the fine-tuning phase for a preparation race. I’ll keep you posted.
Otherwise I’ll be doing the Ironlakes in France (Champagne) 
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Great news then! This makes more sense. S&C are important and even if time seems like it’s running away, consider doing some Strength work while watching kids, tv or doing your social media updates 
Anything counts 
Progress, not perfection
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Removing swimming from 4 days per week (clicking twice) reduces the rating from green to orange „ Settings are workable. Fewer limits may help“
Removing swimming from 6 or 7 days of the week reduces the rating to red „Too many constraints. AI plan quality may suffer.“
That‘s what I had before, then I removed all constraints to improve AI plan quality. What is the best option to go forward without sacrificing plan quality and not having a couple of swims scheduled every week that I‘m definitely not going to do?
Hi everybody,
A little additional feedback after letting the program run for a while. I still get this strange message about 5 constraints when I’ve only indicated 4. This turns the light from green to orange. These 4 constraints are essential so that I don’t get a swimming workout that I can’t do anyway. I’ve tried taking them out and putting them back in to see how the count changes, but it has no effect on the result.
As my plan continues to adjust without constraints I’m seeing run duration creep up slowly beyond my 90 minute available time:
So far it’s only a couple of runs that are over 95 minutes, but two weeks ago none were over 95 minutes.
I can work with a 70 minute run and a 30 minute S&C session by, as you say, overlapping some activities. But if the run durations continue to slowly climb I’ll have to trim them back. Which is what I was hoping to use Constraints for.
For now this is manageable. I can work with my plan as it is. Just giving feedback that, in my opinion, setting a 90 minute constraint on all 7 days should not trigger a ‘Too many constraints’ message, especially for a mid-volume 10k plan.
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