It would be great if there where a pre race plan. For example the week before the race.
That get the body in perfect shape at the start of the race
i hope there are more people with this request
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Hey there!
We actually do have this very thing!
What you are describing is called a taper week, and these weeks can be found on Weeks 7 and 8 of the Specialty Plans. Be sure to pick the Specialty Plan that most closely matches your races demands, because the taper weeks are customized according to the type of event.
If you are pretty fresh, then a one week taper will be appropriate and you can just do Week 8 leading up to race day.
If you have been training hard all season, a two week taper would be better, and you will do Weeks 7 and 8 leading into your event.
I hope this helps clear things up a bit!
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EDIT: After seeing @Bryce 's response, I guess I should have known and should have completed the specialty phase but started my plan too late and ran out of time before the season started⌠oops. [I still think stand alone taper plans might be easy to drop into a race season calendar if not working through a specialty plan]
I like that idea. I would take it a step further and say a full âAâ race two-week taper/peak schedule and base it on current CTL Ranges in 10 or 20 tss steps; e.g.
Low Volume Peak (CTL: 60-80 TSS)
Mid-Volume Peak (CTL: 80-100 TSS)
High Volume Peak (CTL: 100-120 TSS)
And for each âspecialtyâ/race type: e.g CRIT, RR, TT, etc.
I think for guys like me that during the race season who are not necessarily following a TR plan anymore and are caught up in their regular weekly routine for racing each weekend, can look at their current CTL and pick a taper/peak plan two weeks out from their âAâ event.
Agreed, it is definitely a pain to add the Specialty Plan, delete the first 6 weeks, and then place it where you want it. We have plans to improve the Calendar in the future that will allow you to add only the weeks you want from a plan, which will simplify the process. I will bring up your suggestion with the team to add additional instructions regarding the proper addition of a Taper Week 
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Looking through the forum I read a lot of topics on how to taper.
Why not have programs that are a week or two long foe tapering. You could add it to the middle of a program and push your current program back or start it at the end of a program.
Ive found many suggestions but would be nice to have a program I could just start!!!
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Thanks for the feedback!
I could definitely see that having a go to Taper Plan would simplify things for those who need to adjust their current plan to get ready for an event. So, good thinking! I will pass along your idea to the TR Team and we will see if that is something we want to implement.
Keep up the good work!
i second this motionâŚgreat idea. you could also have 2 versions for a long or short distance event
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Hey @FatBoySlim,
I just thought Iâd chime in and mention that Weeks 7 and 8 of your Specialty Plan are the best weeks to use as a taper for your event. It is not currently possible to drop in just Weeks 7 and 8 at this time, but that is something that we have considered and may add in the future .
For now, what I like to do is add the full Specialty Plan at some point a few months in the future, and then copy/paste Weeks 7 and 8 into the plan where I want my taper to be. Then, delete the arbitrary Specialty Plan you added to clear that plan from your Calendar. The copied Taper weeks will still stay where you placed them.
Also, I am going to merge this thread with a similar feature request from a few weeks back so that we can keep all of the relevant discussions in one place 
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Thanks for being so on the ball Bryce! You jumped on that right away. It would be great if we just had the one or two week option to insert into a program after pushing our current program down. But you suggestion will certainly work until changes are made!
Just looked at a specialty plan. Pushed my calendar a week and inserted the workouts individually day by day. Worked great.
Thank you!
Iâm happy to help! Thanks so much for taking the time to share your feedback.
I was about to post this as a revolutionary new idea/suggestion but looks like several others have beaten me to it.
A âTaper to eventâ smart feature - looks at your current TSS and automatically tapers you perfectly to event day, whenever it may be, whether itâs mid SSB or whatnot. Fills the workouts into your calendar, giving the option to either shift or replace any other planned workouts.
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Bumping this thread to try to get it back on the TR teamâs radar.
Iâd love the ability to drop a âtaper weekâ into my calendar and have TRâs algorithm look at my previous ~4 weeks of rides and insert a week of ideal taper workouts that drop the volume and keep the appropriate intensity.
I find myself often in the middle of blocks coming up with race/fkt ideas a week or two out, and then hodge podging a taper together. Yea, ideally itâd all be perfectly laid out for an entire year with only a couple A races and training through everything else and plan builder lining everything up exactly, but in reality I think itâs a bit more random and you gotta strike when the ironâs hot.
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Hey just checking to see if this is what youâre possibly looking for?
Its totally likely that if youâre accustomed to just dropping phases into your calendar instead of using Plan Builder, you may have missed this:
Enabling openers to A and B races decreases the TSS of the week leading into those events, and then will give you an opening workout prior to race day.
Does this address what youâre looking for in a taper week?
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Kind of, but not really. I think that works great if you have enough foresight to plan out your full season perfectly with plan builder and stick with it the whole way throughâŚwhich I definitely donât. Iâve tried for a couple years and without fail it gets all messy and I change things as opportunities come up (or go away with covid) and priorities change and Iâve found plan builder doesnât like being edited without starting from base again.
What Iâm talking about are situations where youâre in the middle of a block and a race pops up on your radar to compete in. Maybe itâs not an A race, but you donât want to have dead middle of the week SSBHVII legs for it. Perhaps itâs a local grassroots thing that you heard about last minute, or a spot opened up at a big race unexpectedly, or you want to set a KOM/FKT on a route and in a week the weather looks optimal.
Ideally Iâd go into the calendar like Iâm adding an annotation for an injury/illness, but instead itâd give an option to âAdd Taper Weekâ starting on X day with a race (of a specific type) on Y day. I insert the week, and TR looks at my previous workouts and builds a short taper that cuts the volume in half an keeps the intensity. Then it also adds 1-2 days of recovery after the race or a z2 ride and a basic sweet spot workout instead of going straight back to mondayâs planned 5.8 vo2 max workout or whatever PL youâre atâŚthen after that reintroduction you pick up where you left off in the plan.
Thanks for explaining!
I need to check with Coach Chad on this, but Iâm not sure this is considered a âtaperâ week from a structural standpoint to keep all your intensity.
If you want to still check all the boxes of the intensity and energy systems of a workout but just cut the duration, this is exactly what Workout Alternates does!
This is another coaching question, where this is very close to what we already have in place for âAâ races (and you could achieve this by dropping an âAâ event in your calendar) but from a training and progression standpoint, may not be best practice for just a B event that is meant to supplement your training.
Thanks for bringing this up, we definitely want to give athletes more tools to adjust their plans and account for events and ârace daysâ while making sure they fall within the parameters of the appropriate training structure.
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