There are two big updates today: it’s now possible for you or your coach to specify rides in advance, and all rides can be shown on a calendar instead of a list.

To get started, you need to click on New: Try the calendar view, with support for training plans on the rides page (for various reasons, training plans only work with the calendar view at the moment). This will then load a calendar of all your rides.

There are two ways to click on the calendar:

1. Click on the icon at the bottom right and go directly to the ride page (this is the same as what clicking on the ride in the list does).
2. Click anywhere else on a day and an expanded view of the day will appear. This shows all rides and training plans for the day, and new training plans can be created from here.

Training plans are descriptions of rides that are going to be ridden. Training rides should be given a title and description, and if needed, the expected duration, cadence to aim for, and any additional ride notes can also be specified. These are all text, so cadence and duration can be written any way you want (i.e., “1:30”, “2 hours”, 90–100 RPM” etc.).

When rides are uploaded, if there are any training plans on the same day, you can choose to link the ride with the training plan (so you’re saying “this ride was done to fulfil this training plan”). The training plan will then be shown on the ride page.

A few more things:

• This isn’t as fully featured as it will be soon (it wouldn’t hurt if it had a “beta” label on it somewhere). This is does the most basic things it needs to do, but there are many things it can’t do, like unlink rides from plans (except by deleting the ride), changing the plan date, email notifications for the day’s training, and making it really easy to make new plans based on existing ones.
• The first day of the week on the calendar is always Monday. This will be configurable shortly.
• The current week is shown slightly darker than normal, and the current day even darker again.
• The coloured bar at the bottom of each ride on the calendar shows the proportion of time spent in each power or heart rate zone (if both exist, power is used).
• Training plans are always private.
• Get in contact if you want anything in particular changed or added.

Updates

There have been a few changes since this was originally posted:

• Training plans can be copied to a new day, which can greatly reduce the amount of time spent adding training plans if some training plans are like other training plans. After clicking “Add training plan”, click on another day in the calendar, and the training plan from that day will be copied into the form. (This also works if there are multiple training plans on the day.)
• Training load can be specified. It must be a number. Nothing is done with it yet, but that will change.
• Email notifications about tomorrow’s (or today’s) training plan are now sent. They default to being sent at 6PM the day before. Options to change the time these are sent or to not send these at all are available on the profile settings page.
• There is a training plan library. Training plans can be added to the library, and when new training plans are created, there is the option to make one based on an existing plan in the library. For coaches, one big advantage of using this instead of simply copying them (see the first point in this list) is that they have the same library regardless of which athletes’ page they are looking at, so it’s easy to use the same (or similar) plans between athletes. To use this, first add a plan to the library by clicking the “Add to library” button at the bottom of a training plan that’s being edited. (On subsequent visits to this page, a button to bring up a library editor is under the month/year navigation on the left, which can be used to add, delete and edit plans.) Once there are plans in the library, when a new training plan is being added to the calendar, there is a drop down menu of training plans, and one of these can be selected to fill in the form.