Does anyone else find the "Planner" near impossible to use?

[ABLEC6]

If you only have 10 riders it's not too bad. If I could see each riders full season in one screen that would be ok too. If the planner was on the Objectives tab, I could see his goals and tiredness on one screen. As it is, I have to make changes then switch tabs to see the season graph with objectives and
then go to the next rider. It shouldn't take a week for me to set everyone's season fitness before I even get to Tour Down Under.
Any tips? Please help!

[P. Smorzalo]

Mate honestly I don't have problems like this... I use the planner just for the big riders... And then objective and team mates in a couple of hours my season is ready

What's your biggest concern? Maybe I can help

[ABLEC6]

Thanks, Smorzalo. The hardest part for me is to time the "fitness Peak" with the major objectives. Like the Grand Tours. Then by the time of year the Vuelta comes around, my big riders have too much tiredness. I do rest them inbetween peaks.
I just wish i could set the weekly work rate while viewing the whole season fitness / tiredness graph, and even better to see more than one rider at a time.

Also, I usually choose who participates in the smaller races on the race day. So registering the team for a race in Augustt is not necessary ... Do you use that part of the planner?

Thanks again.

[P. Smorzalo]

Yes I use it for the big riders in my team... and yes is a bit unconfortable, I open my rider profile and then "season" to see the evolution of his form and tiredness

Then it's important also the level you choose for the start of the season... if a rider wants liegi as an objective he should be "low" in the form you decide the first day, you can go high for riders who wants to ride Tirreno or Paris-Nice and normal for the one who go for the cobble classics

I don't prepare every race from my planner, just the bigger ones to see how they affect the tiredness (or the ones where I'm sure they will partecipate)

Important for me it's to monitor they're peak of form since the beginning of their preparation for the objective... I've become quite good to get every rider in the peak of form in the right time (ex. ride lots of races in the start of the season to get in shape for Tirreno... start a little after for the cobbles, start from Catalunya for the Ardennes... then who rides in the giro does the recognition camps right after Milano-Sanremo and came back for the Tour of the Alps... who rides in TDF does camps during giro and then I send them to Dauphinè or Suisse and so on)

As you mention the Vuelta is a bit more of a problem cause in the end of the season it can happen to have riders tired but just focus on getting them in shape and you'll be good (also IA will have problems with tiredness)... For ex. also in my Giro or TDF in the last week I can usually see my tiredness bar get high but it won't affect the great form of some riders that will always starts the stages +3, +4 or maybe also +5


last hint: try always to not get in the peak of form in the first days or even before the GT... they will lose form in the last week, start something in the 80s
and to run Vuelta after the TDF is a problem to get in shape in the right time, so just go for the recognition camps in the mountains and start the race they will (usually) be perfect in the last week


I think i went far beyond what you asked, sorry :D

[ABLEC6]

Thank you! Very helpful!