Why pause exists

Real training rarely runs uninterrupted from start to race day. Work travel, a head cold, a family event, or just a stretch where running falls off the priority list — every plan deserves a clean way to hit pause without losing the work behind it. Pausing freezes the plan in place; resuming brings it back exactly as it was.

Plan statuses

Every Pheidi plan lives in one of four states:

  • Active — your current plan. Workouts are visible on the calendar and reminder emails fire.
  • Paused — frozen. Nothing schedules, no emails are sent, but every week, workout, vacation, and edit is preserved.
  • Completed — you finished the plan after race day.
  • Archived — retired. Kept in your account history but no longer in the switchable list.

Pausing your active plan

Pausing flips the active plan to Paused. The plan stays in place — all your weeks, logged workouts, vacations, injury history, and any edits you've made are preserved exactly. The 5 AM reminder email stops; phase-transition emails stop too. Nothing is deleted.

Resuming a paused plan

Resuming flips the plan back to Active. Pheidi only ever has one active plan, so the path you take to come back changes what happens to any plan that's currently active:

  • Resume endpoint — if you hit the dedicated resume action on a paused plan, any currently-active plan is archived (removed from the switcher) before this one is activated.
  • Plan switcher — if you use the in-app switcher to pick a paused plan, the currently-active plan is paused instead of archived, so it stays in the switcher and you can flip back to it later.

Workouts that fell in the past while the plan was paused stay where they were scheduled. If you want the plan to shift forward to cover the time you missed, regenerate from your current week or block off the missed days as a vacation (see Vacation Scheduling).

Auto-pause when generating a new plan

If you generate a brand-new training plan while an existing plan is still active, Pheidi automatically pauses the old one rather than deleting it. That way you can switch back to a previous plan if the new one doesn't pan out — or finish a plan after a long break without re-entering all your data.

Switching between plans

Active and paused plans appear in the plan switcher in your account. Switching to a paused plan flips it to active and pauses (not archives) whatever was running before, so both plans stay switchable. Archived plans do not appear in the switcher list.

What pause does not do

  • It doesn't delete any data — every week, workout, edit, and log is kept.
  • It doesn't shift the race date or recalculate the plan.
  • It doesn't cancel your account or sign you out.
  • It doesn't stop transactional emails like sign-in codes.

Pause and resume live inside the Pheidi app — sign in to use them.

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