Hi everyone,
new Athletica user here, just signed up a few weeks ago.
I am confused with my training plan. What you see is a running plan with 2 races (one half marathon in fall) and a prio B 10k in June. What is confusing is why is FITNESS planned to be REDUCED over the long term? Shouldn’t it be the opposite?
Disclaimer: the plan was created right after the recent major bugfix, where plans couldn’t be created. Could this be a bug?
Any advice is helpful.
How many hours of training per week?
It’s the low volume plan (says it’s 3-6h / week). I could switch it higher, but I know I did a marathon 12 weeks training plan (not with Athletica) a couple of years back which was in the range of 5-7hours / week, for a 3h16 race time. On the other side, I need to keep some space for the many unplanned Tennis sessions that are still to come and will of course challenge the plan 
Build progression is set to “Normal”, maybe that could be an issue.
Another suspicious indication is that the training load of a skiing day is rated quite high. Will probably reach out to support as I believe this adds too much training stress to the plan.
I suppose it’s simply impossible to improve your fitness level with so few hours per week; you can only maintain your current level.
Also, have you tried setting to “aggressive” at the end of the plan builder?
I’m curious about this too, and sent a support message about it. I can update this post with their reply.
I’m on week 3 of my training programme for a half marathon race (first week was a test week), but was reasonably fit before starting it.
Restarted my training programme last week with Mid-Volume 6-9hrs and Aggressive Ramp Rate selected, but it’s still showing as a -2.1% ramp rate and declining fitness to race day.
I wonder if selecting High Volume would help, but moving from 6-9hrs to 9-25hrs/week is not possible given time constraints.
The last few weeks have been ~70 km with the 6-9hr training programme, so not certain what needs to shift to see a positive ramp rate.
To be honest I haven’t been following the strength programme, but I have hit all the runs.
