Annotations That Fit Real Life

Training plans live and die by context. A race day looks different from the week leading up to it. A travel day changes what you can fit in. A sick Tuesday means rethinking the next three. Until now, annotations in The Next Race were always a full Monday-to-Sunday block — useful for taper weeks, but blunt when life happens day by day.

Starting today, annotations land on the exact day you set them.

One Day, One Annotation

Right-click any day on your training plan and pick Annotate. Choose Travel, Sick, Race Day, Deload, or Recovery — and the color band appears on that day only.

A sick day on Tuesday? Just Tuesday. A flight on Friday? Just Friday. Race day on Saturday? A clean yellow stripe on the day itself, with the rest of the week free to show your taper sessions instead of being buried under a full-week overlay.

If you change your mind, right-click the day again and pick Change annotation or Remove annotation. The whole flow stays in one place.

A New "Race Day" Type

We renamed the old "Race Week" annotation to Race Day. It's the same yellow accent, but now you can put it exactly where the race is — not just on the week that contains it.

Labels also adapt to how long the annotation runs. A one-day Race Day annotation reads "Race." A multi-day stretch reads "Race Days." A full week reads "Race Week." The same adaptive labelling applies to Deload, Recovery, and Sick — the annotation tells you what it is and how long it lasts without you typing a custom label.

Refreshed Colors

We took the chance to clean up the palette so each type stands out at a glance:

• Travel — blue
• Sick — red
• Race Day — yellow
• Deload — purple (was green)
• Recovery — green (was purple)
• Custom — gray

Deload and recovery used to sit next to each other on the color wheel, which made them easy to confuse from a distance. Swapping them keeps a deload block visually distinct from a true recovery block.

Your Existing Annotations

Every annotation you've already created has been preserved with its original visual intact. Old Race Week, Deload Week, and Recovery Week blocks remain as seven-day spans, Monday to Sunday — the exact same colored bar you had before. Nothing on your calendar has moved.

If you want to swap one down to just the race day itself, remove the week-long annotation and drop a fresh single-day one in its place.

How to Use This

A few starting points:

• Mark race day itself. A single yellow day makes everything around it feel like context — taper before, recovery after.
• Block out travel. A blue Friday makes it obvious why Saturday's long run got shortened.
• Track a sick day. When you're back training, you can see exactly what you missed and plan the return accordingly.
• Note a deload. Pinpoint the day you eased off, not the whole calendar week — useful when your training week doesn't line up with Monday to Sunday.

The point of annotations isn't to fill your calendar with more boxes. It's to give your training plan the same shape as your real life, so what you see matches what you're actually doing.

Open any training plan and right-click a day to try it.