n00b help request - moving days around

The 'move' feature will not move, for example, all Sundays workouts to Thursdays across a date rage.  You will have to do it on a per-day basis.

You can also stagger the import by a few days so that most of your workouts matches your week.  You will have to check out the 'calendar' of the plan and match it up with your ideal schedule.  Then just go back in and do any weekly modifications as needed.  Of course you will have to adjust slightly for the race week by the number of days staggered.

*In cases like yours, we usually recommend editing one week in advanced at a time to keep it easy-shouldn't be no more than 5 minutes a week, plus it better plans to your upcoming schedule should things change.  So for example, this Sunday you would only edit/move your workouts for the next week according your upcoming weeks schedule.

**Marmadaddy is currently working on a drag'n drop workout calendar editor along with our new custom training plan creator (w/detailed workouts) that we should have ready in November which will make these changes a lot easier...AND I am currently researching how extensive a modification to our current editor will take to do what you want.

Some details at:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=480

Greg,

I've been able to modify my plans the way you describe, but it involves three steps:

1. Exporting the plan to Excel
2. Modifying the plan in Excel
3. Re-importing the plan for the correct date range.

Some tips:

• The export/import functions are available from the training control panel - http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/training/edit-controlpanel.asp
• When you export the data, make sure you export the Planned data, and make sure you "include empty days in the export".
• Once in Excel, insert a column and use the WEEKDAY function to display a numerical representation of the day of the week (1=Sunday, 2=Monday, etc.)
• If you sort by the WEEKDAY and then the date, all of your workouts will be grouped together by day of the week.  You can then move workouts from one day to another as a group.
• When I'm done I usually remove the WEEKDAY column, resort it by date and then import it.
• Importing is actually a two step process - first you import the plan and then you upload the plan to your training calendar.

It sounds complicated, but if you're proficient in Excel is relatively easy.

Good luck!

Try this tutorial:

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=480

From your log navigation at the top, you first have to get to your planned training...Use either the 'blog' or 'calendar'  PLANNED view.  So go to 'Calendar or Blog'--->'Planned', click on that and you will see that months or weeks training.

Figure out what you want to move around for the upcoming week.  In the planned calendar view you will see a 'copy/move/delete' link at the top, if using the planned blog view, each day has a 'move' link.  Use that to start moving days.  Make sure you select 'comments' so any workout descriptions go too.

*remember, you have to move sports into empty slots so nothing is overwritten.

A tutorial would be great and I can add it to the import/export page...I will see if I can create something based on Scotts post.  I am actually unfamiliar with the Excel modifications that you both used.

I'm glad it worked!

Ron, if there's anything I can do to help just let me know.