Create and adjust your annual training plan
Build a season plan with training blocks and weekly targets, apply it to your calendar, and modify it when life happens.
Build the plan
The season planning conversation designs a full annual plan around your confirmed goals: periodized training blocks (base, build, peak, race, recovery) and weekly load targets leading into your key events.
Make sure your goals are set (see the goals interview guide).
Start a season planning conversation.
Review the proposed plan — blocks, weekly hours or load, and how they ladder up to your A race.
Ask for changes in plain language: "cap weeks at 8 hours", "add a recovery week in March".
Apply the plan. The season structure is written to your Intervals.icu calendar.
Modify an existing plan
Plans are living documents. Reopen a season planning conversation and describe what changed — an injury, a new race date, more available time — and the coach proposes an updated plan showing exactly what would change before you apply it. If you use the Claude/ChatGPT connector, plan changes work there too with the same propose-then-confirm flow.
How the plan interacts with daily coaching
Once applied, the plan becomes context for every conversation: daily workout suggestions respect the current block and weekly target, and the coach flags when you're drifting from plan.
Troubleshooting
Applying the plan seems to have created duplicate season events.
Why it happens: An older copy of the season structure already existed on the calendar.
How to fix it: Re-apply the plan — Ridium converges season and block markers instead of stacking new copies. If duplicates persist, contact support.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need an annual plan to use the coach?
Can I edit the plan directly in Intervals.icu?
Related
Define your goals with the guided interview
Run the goals interview so the coach knows your target events and preferences, and edit the result later.
Analyze past seasons
Run multi-year analysis of your training history, and understand the on-demand ingestion that powers it. Pro feature.
From the chat to your calendar and head unit
The honest path a workout travels: Ridium writes it to Intervals.icu, and Intervals.icu delivers it to your Garmin or Wahoo.
About this feature: Annual Training Plan
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