Race registration
Adding race events is a core feature of Race Ready. Use it to manage upcoming events, set goals, generate
race-specific training plans, track results, and maintain a history of your accomplishments. Race details also
integrate with your training calendar to help you plan your build-up, taper, and recovery.
To add a race, click + Add race and enter the race details.
- Priority: A = main goal, B = important race, C = training race. Effort warnings apply only to A and B races.
- Status: Choose Planned for events you are interested in but have not signed up for yet.
Confirmed events are races you have registered for and are given priority when using the season planning tool.
Pro tip: Click the status badge on a race card to switch between the two statuses.
- Race event card: Each race has its own card in the Races box. Click the Plan button (calendar icon)
to generate a training build-up for that race, including periodization, taper, and recovery. You’ll also be
prompted to create a plan immediately after adding a new race.
- Target time, finish time, and DNF: You can edit your target time for 24 hours after setting it. After that,
it is locked, or on race day at the latest. Use Adjusted target time to update your goal up until race day.
Locking the original target time helps preserve an honest reference point for evaluating your performance.
Starting on race day, you can enter your official finish time. The race card will show whether you
met your target and by how much. If you are unable to finish the race, click Did Not Finish (DNF). When you
open Race Ready on the afternoon of race day or in the following days, you’ll be prompted to enter your result.
- Additional information (optional): You can add details such as the location, event website, course map,
and notes. In the current version of Race Ready, this information is for reference only and is not connected to
any other features. Integration may be added in a future release.
- Completed races: Finished races move to Completed races at the bottom of the Races box, grouped by
year. In the Toolbox, you can choose whether completed races remain visible in your calendar.
- Adding past races: You can also use Race Ready as a race archive by adding races you have completed in the
past. Select the race date and enter your finish time, or mark the race as DNF. You’ll notice that irrelevant
fields are hidden, but you can still add additional information if you wish. In a future release, you’ll be able
to compare past races to track your progress.
Effort scale
The Effort Scale is designed to help you plan and monitor your overall training load and focus over time,
particularly in triathlon, where training focus must be balanced across multiple disciplines. Rather than planning
individual sessions day by day, it provides a broader overview of your priorities and training load on a weekly
and monthly basis.
0 Rest1 Light2 Steady3 Solid4 Hard5 Main focus
- Set effort levels: Click or drag across cells to select them. You can also use Shift + click to select
a range. Once the cells are highlighted, click an effort level or type a number from 0–5. Press Delete to clear
your selection or click the Undo button to reverse your last action.
- Total load: The total load is the sum of all effort levels across activities for that week. Recovery
levels are excluded from the calculation.
- Effort scale numbers: Use Toggle effort scale numbers above the calendar to choose how effort
levels are displayed:
- All: Shows the effort number in every cell.
- Changes: Shows the number only when the effort level differs from the previous week. This keeps
the calendar clean and makes changes in training focus easy to spot.
- Off: Hides the numbers, leaving only the colour shading.
Using the effort scale is about balancing your priorities. If two activities are rated 5, consider lowering the
effort levels of others. Build progressively over several weeks, then ease off to allow recovery.
Effort levels can be set automatically with the Season planning tool.
Effort warnings
Effort warnings help you avoid the most common planning mistakes: arriving at an important race tired,
returning to hard training too soon afterwards, and training hard for too long without a break. Race Ready
checks your plan as you edit it and warns you when a week breaks one of the rules below. The rules apply only
to A and B races; C races are treated as part of your training.
- The week before an A or B race: This is your taper week, when you reduce training so you start the
race rested. No activity should be higher than 2, and the Total load should be 6 or less.
- The week after an A or B race: Your body needs time to recover after a hard effort. Add Recovery
to the week and keep training to a minimum: light activities (1) are fine, as long as the Total load is 2
or less.
- Long heavy periods: Hard training only pays off when it is followed by rest. You will get a warning
if you plan more than 4 heavy weeks in a row without Recovery. A week counts as heavy when an activity is rated
above 4 or the Total load is above 12.
Where warnings appear: All current warnings are listed in the Warning center above the calendar.
Click a warning to jump to that week. Affected weeks are also marked with ⚠ in the calendar, and you’ll
get a short notice as soon as an edit breaks a rule.
Warnings are guidance, not restrictions: you can still plan the way you want. If you prefer not to see them,
turn off Effort warnings in the Toolbox.
Season planning
The planning tools use established periodization principles for endurance sports to structure your training
around your races.
You can use the tools to plan either your whole season across several activities or a race-specific build-up.
- Race distance determines the build-up. Race Ready selects a planning profile based on the race type
and distance. For example, a 10 km run recommends an 8-week build-up, while a marathon recommends 15 weeks.
For some sports, the estimated race duration is used to select a comparable profile.
- Planned backwards from race day. Each plan works backwards from the race date, arranging the phases
in sequence: development → race-specific training → taper (1–3 weeks, depending on distance) → race day →
recovery → gradual return to normal training.
- 3:1 training blocks. The plan generally follows three building weeks followed by one easier week,
allowing your body to absorb the training load and recover before the next block.
- Priorities determine preparation. A races receive the full build-up and taper. B races receive a
shorter build-up, a one-week taper, and recovery. C races receive no dedicated taper or recovery period.
- Confirmed races take priority. When using Plan my season, a planned race (one you are still
considering) that overlaps with the build-up or recovery period of a confirmed race receives one level less
preparation. A planned A race is treated like a B race, and a planned B race like a C race. If there is no
conflict, the race retains its assigned priority. The Plan button on an individual race card always
uses that race’s own priority, regardless of its status or conflicts with other races.
- Effort level 5 means main focus, not maximum load. The race’s key disciplines receive priority, while
other activities are maintained at an appropriate level. This helps balance training across disciplines
without trying to maximise everything at once.
Release notes
- Version
- Build
- Developer
- Kristoffer Molvig ©
- Status
- Released
- Browser
- Works best in Chrome or Edge (needed for the data file)
- Your data
- Stays on your device: in this browser and in your data file. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Race Ready v1.0
- This is the first release of Race Ready – released October 25, 2026.
Your plan and races are kept when you update Race Ready.
