… and at the same time says “Load for the day is to high”?
This happens through the complete Marathon plan.
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Hey @nontec37
Welcome to Athletica community. Great question, and thanks for the screenshot, very helpful.
You’re absolutely right to notice the apparent contradiction. That does seem confusing at first glance. Here’s what is likely happening.
Athletica’s AI is trying to balance multiple factors:
- your weekly structure
- training goals (vo2max/aerobic dev)
- long-term marathon progression.
On certain key days, like the one you showed us, it may prescribe two sessions instead of one big one to:
spread the stimulus and reduce injury risk,
boost aerobic development without maxing out on one single session,
fit in necessary adaptations before lower load day or recovery block.
That said, if the warning message pops up repeatedly across multiple days, or the day just feels unsustainably heavy for you, it may be worth check-in with yourself.
Review:
your training history and whether your volume ramp rate is too aggressive (go to your settings-training-about you-advance)
Whether you have adjusted your thresholds
Let us know if you want help reviewing your setup - happy to take a closer look.
Again, stoked to have you here.
MJ
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Hi,
thanks for your answer.
I checked my ramp rate.
It is set to “normal” and was not touched by me.
Thresholds have been set from Athletica (lower then the ones I set).
My first setup was different here, because I had a testrun a week before I started with Athletica and thought they must be correct (it was a Coros Test, saying Pace is 5:20 per km, HR is 158 and Power 227).
I would be happy if you could check my profile and correct if set up wrong.
Thx.