I figured to add this to the suggestions section rather than rant in the questions section.

I've been frustrated with the program as I try to bend it to do things the way *I* want rather then how it forces me to do.

I've realized though that simply adding the ability to allow a race to RE-ENTER the planning mode with an existing program would solve nearly every issue I have with it.

Of course simple in suggestion, I've no idea how practical in implementation.

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When I originally scheduled my races I was asked their priority. It scheduled them kind of cool in the planning stage and told me how far out I was from the A races - it ignored how far out from the B and C race - which makes total sense.

Now when I am in the start up athlete details screen it counts down to each race! regardless of priority. So I am left with stupid things like '6 weeks to Ironman Wisconsin' in my schedule when originally it was stated as *n* weeks out after my last A race!

Also you can't edit a race! once it's in it's seems to be "in" forever unless you delete and re-add. So I can't do things like adjust priority, I can't even SEE the priority of a race now! so short of knowing what it is it isnt listed.

Hi Ed,

Do you mean when you go back to re-design your season? If so this is already in a change for the update, whereby races in your existing plan will show up in the 're-planning mode.

I will answer your other comment here to and combine the two, I agree that we should store the race priority within the program once it is created and show it on the count down. Our initial thought was that this was only really important for the planning stage, as once you had planned your season, an athlete would know his priority races and where they were. However, I can see the value in this, so we will also make the change.

This is the same for editing a race, we will add this functionality, again we did not see this as a big issue initially, as we thought the number of races per season that needed 'editing' would be minimal, therefore to delete and enter a new one would be enough for the odd race you needed to edit.

You are the first person to highlight these 'functional issues' to us, but we can see the value in your points for someone who needs to create a complex season.

As a side note, did you know you can copy single 'Program Templates Weeks' and other 'Program Weeks' in to programs, if you just want to add the odd weeks from a 'Pre Defined' Program or another program to your season. You can do this using the drop down menu on the left of each week. The way I read one of your previous posts, you were trying to copy individual workouts and races between programs.......... it would be way more efficient to copy whole weeks in this case.

Regards,

Mike Read

Glad to hear there are changes like that in the works. I showed the program off to a fellow tri buddy and he was impressed.

I definitely think "showing through" as much data as was entered in planning mode would be an improvement. Re-planning is something I do frequently (for better or worse) to accommodate changes in schedule, shifting priorities, and sometimes even adjusting my philosophy.

I did figure out the add template weeks feature and *THAT* really helped out. if that had had my races in there it would have been great! Thanks for letting me know about it though it is a BIG help once you realize you need to change a block of work.

thanks for the reply,
ed