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Browse training plans?

TH3 FRBTH3 FRB
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Is there a way to review different training plans short of swapping out what you currently have loaded?  I'm just interested in seeing what the big bike week and big tri weeks look like and maybe simply cruising the short course plans out of curiosity.

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  • GMAN 19030GMAN 19030
    I wish that were an option.
  • kurshingkurshing
    It WOULD be nice, but I think it is a bit of an effort to protect intellectual capital. I understand that, so, I don't hold that against the team in any way.

    Little does an outsider know, that probably only 1/2 of the EN offering is actually the training plans!
  • Jeff SullivanJeff Sullivan
    @ Joel - maybe i'm missing your point - but i did exactly what you're talking about - i would change my plan with new end dates - print out the pages - then reselect another plan i wanted to view - i was comparing IM beginner to intermediate - then BBW & BTW - i also did a quick overview of short course - each took about 5 minutes to print out - granted it would be nice to everything in a nice condensed pdf format but existing format is not to bad just a bunch of extra graphics

    @ Stephen - i hear and agree with RnP desire to protect their IP - i started out as a "buy our training plan guy" but soon thereafter joined EN - i remember part of their pitch is you have access to all plans all the time (in addition to forums...)

    I believe we're entitled to this info so long as we don't abuse it and don't piss off the "tri gods"
  • DanielaDaniela
    If you know the plan number, you can view each week without swapping plans. You just have to change the "p=#" to the plan number and the "w=#" to the week number at the end of the URL. I just don't know how to view the 'summary' view.

    i.e. Advanced SC is Plan #55, so the URL for week 18 is:
    http://members.endurancenation.us/TrainingWeekDetails/tabid/204/Default.aspx?p=55&w=18

    Beg SC is p=57, and Int SC is p=58.
  • Coach RichCoach Rich

    Not a sinister plot to protect ourselves, just that we only have so much bandwidth to develop so much whizbangery so we focus on the what is absolutely necessary: load up a plan to end on a race, plan backfills the calendar, then you train . As you can only train with one plan at a time, that's why we've only built it to see one plan at a time.

    As you've all well documented here, there are many ways to basically work around the system and get what you need and more with just a few keystrokes and, frankly, exposing Patrick and I to a lot of risk.

    But in the end we count on you, our members, athletes, and friends to do the right thing.

  • GMAN 19030GMAN 19030
    Posted By Rich Strauss on 03 May 2012 07:39 AM 

    But in the end we count on you, our members, athletes, and friends to do the right thing.



    Let me get this straight...

    I'm not supposed to be selling the plans for 1/2 price to others, right?  Geez, taking all the fun out of it. 

  • kkieferkkiefer

    I do the same like Daniela. I just did yesterday my "smart guy thing" on adjusting the HIM intermedate plan to help me ramp up into the plan

    So yes, giving the oppertunity to browse the plans gives some risk, but also helps RnP to improve the overall quality for all.

     

    Rich, BTW: there are some "smaller" bugs on 2012 HIM Intermedate

    Week 4 - http://members.endurancenation.us/TrainingWeekDetails/tabid/204/Default.aspx?p=62&w=4

    - Saturday has no bike, where Basic and Advance have



    Week 8 - http://members.endurancenation.us/TrainingWeekDetails/tabid/204/Default.aspx?p=62&w=8

    - Saturday has no bike, where Basic and Advance have

     

     

  • jhbinscjhbinsc

     Just easier for low tech me to print out my plan and lay it on table and look at it as a whole rather than weekly. As others have indicated, I'd print out other plans if I wanted to have a peek too. Think this is ok as long as you are supplementing your income....Bob! LOL 

  • Coach PatrickCoach Patrick
    Thanks for understanding folks....as others have noted, you can "hack the weeks" out to get that done...or you can go to the Wiki and view the weekly hours charts...or to the EN Store and view sample weeks and weekly hour charts...
  • TH3 FRBTH3 FRB
    It's just a matter of convienence if someone is interested in comparing options or learining more about a particualr plan. I don't see where the risk is since like mentioned already, you can load any plan to see it, and all paying members have access to all plans anyway. It seems silly to switch the plan I'm currently using just to explore the other options. It definitely doesn't need to be any whizbangery - sometimes simple is the better solution.
  • rboglerbogle

     Joel,

    Not exactly what you want, but maybe something close, I used the Volume and events worksheets  on the  season planning spreadsheet https://www.box.net/shared/ep4yl6vonz to load up my ical calendar with what each week holds in terms of volume, RR, Big Day, testing etc for the rest of my season. Didn't take too long 10 minutes or so. Now I know whats comming when, at a macro level.... Screenshot from the spreadsheet below:

     

  • jhbinscjhbinsc

    pretty cool Rian!

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