What's on your calendar

Each week is a skeleton: long sessions, quality work, aerobic fillers, and strength/mobility — placed against your available days and long-day preferences.

Session priority

Lower priority numbers are more important. Long endurance and key quality sessions sit at the top; fillers and mobility are more sacrificial. If you miss a key session, Brick may propose a reprioritize so the week still serves the season.

Quality vs easy

Brick polarizes intensity on purpose. Easy days protect the hard ones. Too much middle effort ("gray zone") is treated as a limiter — see Limiters. When a day looks hard, it should feel hard for a reason; when it looks easy, keep it easy.

Bricks

In build and peak, a long ride and "The Real Brick Run" are scheduled as an atomic pair. Treat them as one training unit for fatigue and logistics — not two independent sessions you can casually split across the week without cost.

Hard / easy spacing

Back-to-back hard days get softened when the skeleton would otherwise stack stress. Long sessions are spaced with schedule advice so you are not stacking two monster days by accident. Schedule tips appear when your prefs fight good practice — they warn; they do not silently ignore your constraints.

Recovery weeks

Volume does not climb forever. Periodic recovery weeks (and post-race recovery) protect adaptation. If a week suddenly looks lighter, check the phase rail — deload is often intentional.

What you see on a session

Titles, interval structure, purpose, intended adaptation, execution cues, load, priority, and in-session fueling notes for longer work. Intensity is prescribed as a fraction of your thresholds — Thresholds and zones.