How Vacation Scheduling Works

What happens to your training plan when you schedule time off.


Two Vacation Modes

When you schedule a vacation in the Overview tab, you choose one of two modes:

Full Rest Light (50%)
Run workouts Converted to rest Converted to easy at 50% distance
Rest days Stay as rest Stay as rest
Load multipliers Set to 0% Halved (non-long-run)
Warm-up / Cool-down Removed Removed

Your Plan Is Never Modified

Vacation is non-destructive. Your original training plan — every workout type, distance, warm-up, and cool-down — is preserved exactly as generated. Vacations are stored separately and layered on top when you view your plan.

Remove a vacation and your original workouts reappear instantly — no data is ever lost or overwritten.

Mileage Excluded from Totals

Vacation weeks don't inflate or deflate your plan metrics. All vacation workouts are excluded from:

In the plan overview, vacation weeks show the lost mileage underneath the weekly total so you can see the impact at a glance.

Day Off

For single-day absences, use the Day Off button instead of a vacation. Day offs work the same way — you choose a load percentage (0% for full rest, or 10–80% for a reduced easy run) and the change is applied as a non-destructive overlay.

After applying a vacation or day off, you're offered the option to redistribute the removed miles across your remaining plan. See How Redistribution Works for details.

Editing and Removing Vacations

Click any vacation cell in the plan overview to open the vacation editor. From there you can:

Vacations Survive Plan Regeneration

If you regenerate your plan (from Settings), any vacations that overlap the new plan's date range are carried over automatically. Vacations that fall outside the new plan are dropped.

Key Takeaway

Vacation pauses your training — it doesn't touch it. Your original plan is stored separately and always intact. Remove a vacation and it's like it never happened.


Research & evidence

Science behind this feature from pheidi.training.


See also