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Changing the Race Date in a Garmin Coach Plan

The Enabler
over 2 years ago

I'm into week 11 of a 14-week training plan with coach Greg and accidentally changed the race date to a week later than the actual race. Now I cannot change it back at all! Don't want to abandon then plan plus I cannot see the upcoming activities beyond one week so I cannot even enter them manually! 

Luckily, I have a running buddy who's on the same plan, but their pace is 30 sec faster so it's not quite the same. I've been skipping through planned activities (using lap button) and then manually entering and running my friend's workouts with reduced pace but there is no way to link these manual activities to the plan.

Any other ideas would be appreciated. And no response from Garmin support so far :/  

  • +1 over 2 years ago

    All,

    The issue here with adjusting the race date has a few variables, including how many weeks into the plan the user is, how many weeks remain in the plan, the actual Coach and limitations that they set on the plan itself, the race distance of the plan, among others.

    A previous user used the "ideas link" (Have an Idea?) to submit a feature request to be able to change the duration (not the race date) of the plan.  So, for instance, if you were in a 16 week plan with a race date on January 7, and the race date changed to January 28th, you would change the plan to a 19 week plan instead of moving your 16 week plan 3 weeks forward.  In theory, this would allow you to then shorten the plan back to 16 weeks if the race date again changes BACK to January 7th.

    If this feature request is eventually implemented, please keep in mind that there may still be certain limitations, depending on some of the circumstances/variables mentioned above.

    If you would like to be added to this feature request, please answer the following:

    1. What Garmin device do you use as your current (Preferred) activity tracker?
    2. May we have permission to access your Garmin Connect account?
    3. May we have permission to email you?
    4. In what country do you live?
  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Garmin-Kevin

    appreciate that calculations could be a bit complex but I still believe it should just allow me to go back to my original plan, especially considering that I was well into it (11 weeks out of 14) and then suddenly after a mistake I simply was unable to go back at all and had to abandon the plan because it was no longer of any use!

    If the proposed feature gives a workaround then yes please, do add me to the feature request:

    1. Forerunner 745.
    2. Yes, you can access my Garmin account.
    3. Yes, you can email me.
    4. Australia
  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Garmin-Kevin

    This feature maybe can resolve.

    • Fenix 6x pro
    • Yes, you can access my Garmin account.
    • Yes, you can email me.
    • Italy

    Tanks

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Garmin-Kevin

    The date picker in Android Connect Mobile is missing controls to scroll the month, so I can only pick dates in the month that was initially selected. Changing the date now works for me in Connect Web (oh, Coach is hidden there in Training!), so it's not a "permitted dates" thing, it's a "missing arrow buttons" thing. v 4.6.4, Forerunner 955.

  • +1 over 1 year ago

    All, 

    We have investigated and determined that this is working as designed. There are no plans currently to implement any changes, so all we can suggest is submitting this to our Ideas link: Have an Idea?