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:
- Total planned miles — the grand total at the bottom of the overview
- Peak weekly miles — so a vacation week doesn't lower your peak
- Run day count — vacation days aren't counted as scheduled runs
- Completion percentage — you're not penalized for skipping vacation rest days
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:
- Edit dates — adjust the start and end dates, or switch between full rest and light modes
- Remove — the vacation overlay is deleted and your original workouts reappear. If you had redistribution linked to this vacation, the redistributed miles are also removed.
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.
Vacation scheduling lives inside the Pheidi app — sign in to add a vacation.
Research & evidence
Science behind this feature from pheidi.training.
- Running Training Plan: The Complete Guide Pillar hub linking 48+ deeper dives — start here for the full picture.
- Handling Missed Runs 10-day rule, make-up strategies, and when doubling up backfires.
- What a Missed Week Actually Costs Expected marathon time loss per missed training block.
- 300,000 Runners, Missed Training Patterns Strava data on how often runners actually miss training.
- Training Disruption: Accept, Don't Cram Evidence-based recovery after unplanned breaks.
- Getting Back on Track Structured re-entry after missed weeks.
- Jeff Galloway: Missing Runs Isn't Failure Flexibility over perfection in marathon training.
See also
- How Load Redistribution Works What happens to the miles you remove from your plan, and how Pheidi safely reallocates load across future easy runs without breaching ACWR thresholds.
- How Schedule Flexibility Works How Pheidi adapts your training plan when life gets in the way: day blocking, workout swapping, and automatic reflow that preserves the overall training load.
- How Plan Layers Work How Pheidi modifies your training plan non-destructively through overlay layers, so every change (vacation, injury, swap) can be undone without losing the original.