Your season, several races, one plan

Most athletes do not have a race. They have a season. There is the one that really matters, a few they care about, and some entered for the fun of it or to practise something. Nymiva plans all of them together, as one season, so the small races serve the big one instead of quietly spoiling it.

The usual answer produces a tired athlete

There are two normal ways to handle a season with several races in it, and they fail in the same place.

The first is to follow a plan for the big race and improvise around everything else. That holds until the race in the middle of a block. You either treat it as a normal weekend and race it badly, or you rest for it and lose the week, and the plan knows about neither.

The second is to run a plan for each race at the same time. Each one is sensible alone. Laid over the same calendar they describe an athlete who does not exist, because every plan assumes it owns your recovery. They both want your Saturday. Nothing reconciles them, so you reconcile them, badly, on the day.

Both fail because a season is one resource problem and they solved it in pieces.

Your races are ranked, not equal

The first thing the season asks is not which races you entered. It is which of them you are willing to be tired for.

Priorities run from A+ down to C. An A+ race is the season-defining objective, and it is protected: it gets its own preparation, its own taper, and first claim on the weeks it needs. An A race is a real goal with real preparation behind it. A B race matters enough to sharpen for a little, but not enough to cost the races above it. A C race is training, experience or a rehearsal. It is absorbed into the week it lands in rather than tapered for, and that week is written knowing it is there.

The ranking is an input, not a label. When two races want the same weeks, priority decides which wins. If preparing for a lower-priority race would materially compromise a higher one, the season will not do it silently. It comes to you as a decision with the cost attached.

Races relate to each other, and the relationships matter

A race is rarely just a race. It can be a goal race, a tune-up for a later one, a qualifier that unlocks one, or a training race you are doing because racing is good practice for racing.

Those relationships change the plan. A tune-up can double as an assessment, so the block does not spend a separate week on a test you are about to sit anyway under better conditions. A qualifier splits the season into two honest futures, because what follows depends on whether you qualify. A goal race defines what everything else is in service of, which is the only reason "lower priority" means anything at all.

Different sports, one season

A spring marathon and a summer triathlon are one season, not two plans that happen to belong to the same person.

Aerobic development is shared where the transfer is credible, so it gets trained once rather than duplicated in each sport at full cost. Where transfer is partial or absent, the sport-specific work is protected instead. Riding does not maintain running durability or running economy, so it is never allowed to stand in for them.

Recovery is a single budget across everything you do. Hard days are spaced across the whole week rather than per sport, so two quality sessions that each satisfy their own discipline's spacing rule and land on consecutive days get moved. Your legs do not know which sport tired them.

Recovery between races is planned, not hoped for

A hard race costs something, whether or not the plan admits it. Recovery afterwards is scheduled as part of the season rather than left to how you feel on the Monday, and the block that follows starts from where you actually are rather than where the calendar assumed you would be.

The season is laid out backwards from the races that matter, through Prep, Foundation, Event shaping and Peak, the arc other plans call base and build. Recovery weeks sit in the rhythm, and each taper is solved against a form band rather than a fixed count of easy days.

You can change any of it, and the checks keep running

The season you get is a proposal, not a verdict. This matters more than the planning does.

You can change which races matter and how they relate. You can reorder or re-emphasise the focus points, so if you disagree with the order the gaps are being tackled in, you set it yourself. You can move block boundaries, change what a week is doing, mark a recovery week, or write an individual session yourself in the builder.

What does not switch off is the validation. The guardrails keep running on your edited plan, not only on the one you were offered. You get told when a change broke hard-day spacing, when the ramp you asked for climbs faster than your history supports, when an ability you still need for a later race has been left to decay, and when a smaller race has started eating the weeks a bigger one needed.

Almost none of that is a refusal. It is a disagreement with a specific suggested fix attached, and you can read it, decide you have a reason it does not know about, and proceed anyway. Every change is versioned, so nothing you do is a one-way door. Building and editing your own season covers exactly what comes apart in your hands and what happens when you break something on purpose.

The system stops deciding and starts disagreeing out loud. You keep the authority. You lose the ability to break something without hearing about it.

Questions people ask

What if I add a race mid-season?

Add it, give it a priority and a relationship to the others, and the affected weeks are reworked rather than the whole season being torn up. Changing an event's priority is a significant change, so it comes to you for approval with its reasoning rather than applying itself.

What if two races land close together?

The season models the recovery one race owes the next, so the second is prepared for from a realistic starting point. If the two are too close to do both properly, you are told which one is paying for the other before you find out on a start line.

Can my races be in different sports?

Yes, and that is the case this page exists for. See the season planner for how the shape gets solved, and the marathon and Ironman pages for what each of those events demands on its own.

What if I change my mind about which race matters most?

Change the priorities. The strategy re-solves around the new ranking, which is a different thing from shuffling sessions on a calendar. Priorities are the input the rest of the season is derived from.