| name | assist:plan-training |
| description | Training plan scheduling, weekly retrospectives, and training adjacent constraint validation. Use this skill whenever the user mentions training, lifts, runs, climbs, the Friday long run, sauna timing, cold plunge timing, recovery days, cutback weeks, altitude weeks, race week, training restructure, Fitbod, asking to schedule a training session, or asking to look back / retrospect on a past training week. Also trigger for "/assist:plan-training", "schedule my long run", "what does training look like this week", "how did last week go", "training retro", or any request that touches the training plan in `Constitution/Fitness/`. Independently usable, and also called by `/assist:plan-week` during Monday planning. |
| argument-hint | [week | long-run | move | retro] |
| allowed-tools | ["Bash","mcp__claude_ai_Google_Calendar__*","mcp__claude_ai_Strava__*","WebSearch","WebFetch","Read","Edit","Write","AskUserQuestion"] |
Plan Training Assist
Help Forni schedule the week's training events from the active block plan, validate training adjacent constraints, and move training sessions safely. The skill is independently invocable, and also gets called by /assist:plan-week during Monday planning before triage and slotting.
Before Every Invocation
- Read learned-rules.md in this directory
- Read the canonical training context:
~/Eudaimonia/Constitution/Fitness/2026-training-plan.md — current block plan with weekly Long mi, Vert ft, Fri shape~/Eudaimonia/Constitution/Fitness/CLAUDE.md — training conventions~/Eudaimonia/schedule.md — recurring weekly anchors (yoga, lifts, climbs, SPRC, sauna)
- Determine the target week. Default to the current ISO week. Use
date +"%G-W%V" for the week identifier.
Source of Truth
The training plan lives at Constitution/Fitness/2026-training-plan.md. The weekly skeleton (recurring anchors) lives at schedule.md. Google Calendar holds the live scheduled reality, including one off events (Friday long run + paired drives, race weekends, altitude trips).
For scheduling decisions (what's on the calendar this week, what conflicts with what): the calendar is truth.
For retrospective decisions (what actually happened last week): Strava is truth for runs; the user is truth for everything else. Calendar events are not evidence of completion — they reflect scheduled intent, nothing more.
Training Constraints
These constraints exist for real physiological and practical reasons. They are not suggestions.
Cold plunge timing: No cold water immersion within 4 to 6 hours after strength training. Cold exposure blunts the inflammatory response needed for muscle adaptation. Sauna (heat only) is fine after strength. When moving sauna or contrast sessions, check whether strength training happened earlier that day.
Thursday mornings: No prayer, meditation, or journaling on Thursdays. That time is reserved for getting to SPRC at 6:00 AM, which rotates locations.
Fasting window adjacency: Last meal at 19:30, first meal at 07:30. Long runs starting at 07:00 begin in the fasted state, ending close to or just after the first meal window. Plan fueling around this.
Calendar Event Conventions
Color coding, transition / travel, and title formats live in GC Calendar Preferences. Calendar reads and writes go through the gws CLI; see ~/Eudaimonia/Admin/tools/gws.md for the exact invocation syntax (calendarId in --params, event body in --json). Training specific use:
- Training events use Sage (colorId 2): runs, lifts, yoga, body care, recovery
- Long runs:
🏃 <MILES> mi Long Run
- Travel to trailheads:
🚙 <LOCATION> with the destination in the title (Basil, colorId 10)
- Drive home:
🚙 Home (Basil, colorId 10)
- Travel events use 30 minute increments aligned to 30 minute blocks (e.g., 06:30 to 07:00, not 06:15 to 07:00)
- Every change of location needs flanking transition or travel events. A long run is incomplete without its drive flanks.
Mode: week (default)
The Monday morning training pass. Runs as part of /assist:plan-week plan mode (Phase 2), or standalone for ad hoc training planning.
The pass has two stages: retrospective on the just-closed week, then scheduling the current week. Retro first is non-negotiable — scheduling without knowing what happened last week causes drift to compound.
Phase 1: Retrospective on the Previous Week
Run the full retro workflow on the just-closed ISO week (see Mode: retro below). The retro produces:
- A new
### Wk N subsection appended to the training plan
- An adherence read on what hit, what slipped
- A plan adjustment check: do the current week's targets still hold, or do they step down?
When the retro reveals drift (long run missed, weekly mileage 30%+ under plan, two consecutive weeks of misses, or weight off trajectory) or the load safety check fires a flag (ceiling breach, weekly ramp over ~15%, or two big days clustered within 48 hours), pause before scheduling. Propose adjustments to the current week's targets and get user confirmation before continuing to Phase 2.
If a ### Wk N subsection already exists in the plan for the just-closed week, skip Phase 1 and continue to Phase 2.
Phase 2: Detect Existing Placeholders
Fetch the week's calendar events (Monday through Sunday) and check for already existing recurring or one off events. Do not overwrite or duplicate. Only create what is missing for this specific week.
| Cadence | Items | Action |
|---|
| Recurring (assumed already on calendar) | Mon yoga 12:15, Tue lift 11:00, Tue DRC eve, Thu SPRC morning, Thu lift 11:00, Wed PAH / sauna | Skip if present |
| One off (variable, per week) | Fri long run + paired drive blocks | Create fresh each week |
If a recurring placeholder is missing, surface it to the user rather than silently creating it. The user may have skipped the session this week intentionally.
Phase 3: Week Run Shape
Lay out the week's runs as a light shape, not a prescription. This is the step that turns the static weekday skeleton into an intentional week. Read the block row for the current week (weekly mileage ceiling, long run distance and vert, phase), subtract the long run to get the weekday running budget, then distribute it across the run days as a small table of day, rough distance, purpose.
Keep purpose simple: easy, pickups (the Tue DRC sprint work), long, or optional shakeout. Do not prescribe tempo or interval workouts. The block posture is move with joy, not rigor.
Shape the week to the phase:
- Build: Mon optional easy, Tue DRC with pickups, Thu SPRC easy, Fri long. The weekday runs fill the budget under the long.
- Peak: protect the long, trim weekday volume so the marquee lands fresh.
- Cutback or taper: everything short and easy, weekday runs well under the build shape.
- Travel or recovery: time on feet only, easy, no prescribed distances. Do not force a shape onto a week meant to be unstructured (the LA deload is the archetype).
Present the shape to Forni as one small table. It is a default he can deviate from freely, never a leash. Then write it into the week banner body alongside the training block (see the Week theme banner convention in assist:plan-week), so the whole week's runs are visible in one place when he taps the banner. Do not rewrite the individual recurring DRC / SPRC events. The shape lives in the banner; the recurring blocks stay put so a run can move days without the calendar fighting it.
The Friday long run (next phase) is the anchor of this shape; its distance and vert come straight from the block row.
Phase 4: Friday Long Run
Run the Friday long run workflow (see Mode: long-run below). This is the primary one off creation each week.
Phase 5: Special Week Handling
Check the current week number against the training plan and apply special week logic:
- Cutback weeks (4, 8): Fri long is shorter and on lighter terrain. Same workflow, smaller numbers.
- Altitude weeks (9, 10): Front Range altitude (week 9) or Aspen recon (week 10). Week 10 includes a Thu drive out + overnight; surface logistics to the user before creating events.
- Race week (13): Fri 7/31 is the FPL race itself. Coordinate the race day plan as a separate workflow, not a training long run.
Phase 6: Mon Flex
Optional easy ~4 mi run on Mon. Energy dependent. Do not auto schedule. Surface as an option, do not create without explicit user confirmation.
Mode: long-run
Standalone Friday long run workflow. Use when the user wants to plan or replan just the long run without doing a full week pass.
- Look up the current week row in
2026-training-plan.md for Long mi, Vert ft, and Fri shape (route candidate or terrain).
- Pick a specific route matching those numbers. Use
WebSearch on alltrails.com to find the trail page when needed.
- Confirm the route with the user via
AskUserQuestion before creating events.
- Default start time is 07:00. Front Range trailheads are ~30 min from Denver; altitude weeks (9, 10) are longer drives.
- Long run duration: budget ~15 to 16 min/mi for moderate trail pace with vert (e.g., 8 mi @ 1,500 ft is ~2 hr).
- Create three Fri events per GC Calendar Preferences:
🚙 <Trailhead Name> — Basil (colorId 10) — drive out. Location = trailhead address. 30 min block aligned to 30 min increments (e.g., 06:30 to 07:00).🏃 <MILES> mi Long Run — Sage (colorId 2) — location = AllTrails URL.🚙 Home — Basil (colorId 10) — drive back. Same 30 min alignment.
Mode: move
Move or swap a training event with constraint validation.
- User describes what to move (e.g., "Move Tuesday's lift to Wednesday", "Reschedule sauna to Friday")
- Fetch the relevant events
- Validate against training constraints:
- Cold plunge sequencing: if moving a cold plunge or contrast session, check that no strength training happened in the prior 4 to 6 hours
- Thursday SPRC protection: do not propose moves that displace Thu 06:00 SPRC unless the user explicitly intends to skip
- Transition flanks: if the moved event involves a location change, ensure the destination day has the matching drive or transition blocks
- Present the proposed change with any downstream impacts
- Execute after confirmation
When moving recurring events for just one week, modify only that occurrence, not the entire series. When the user wants a permanent change, update the series and flag that schedule.md and the training plan may need updating.
Never modify existing events without explicit permission. Always present the proposed move and wait for approval. Reclaim auto reschedule effects can ripple through nearby flexible events; warn when they're at risk.
Mode: retro
Look back on a completed (or in progress) training week. Compare planned vs actual coverage, mileage, vert, and qualitative shape. Append the result as a new ### Wk N subsection under the Weekly Retrospectives section of 2026-training-plan.md, in chronological order, so adherence is tracked alongside the plan itself.
Phase 1: Determine the Target Week
- Default: the most recently completed ISO week (
date -v-mon -v-7d +"%G-W%V" style logic, or simply the prior Monday-to-Sunday window).
- The natural cadence is Monday morning, when Sunday's weigh-in has been logged and the just-closed Mon-Sun week is the unambiguous target.
- If invoked outside Monday, default to the most recently completed week. Confirm with the user when intent is ambiguous (e.g., mid-week ad hoc retros).
- The subsection heading uses the ISO week identifier (e.g.,
### Wk 1: ISO 2026-W19 (May 4 to May 10)).
Phase 2: Gather Data
Pull from two sources in parallel:
- Training plan: read the row in
2026-training-plan.md for the target week. Note Long mi, Vert ft, Fri shape, Weight target, Nutrition focus.
- Strava: pull the week's activities via
mcp__claude_ai_Strava__list_activities with range_start and range_end (ISO LocalDateTime). Each activity's summary already includes distance and elevation_gain, both in meters (convert: miles = meters / 1609.34, feet = meters * 3.28084), so no per activity detail call is needed for the coverage table. Reach for mcp__claude_ai_Strava__get_activity_performance or get_activity_streams only when splits or stream data are needed.
Strava is the source of truth for what happened. Do not pull calendar data for retro purposes. The calendar shows scheduled intent, not completion. A calendar event existing is not evidence the session happened.
Phase 3: Build the Coverage Table
For every planned session in the week, record actual status:
- Runs (DRC, SPRC, long run, Mon flex): match Strava activities by date and approximate distance. No matching Strava activity = miss.
- Yoga, lifts, climbing, sauna, contrast therapy: not captured in Strava. Ask the user explicitly via
AskUserQuestion whether each happened. Batch the questions when there are several. Do not infer completion from calendar events existing.
Mark each session as ✅ (hit), ❌ (missed), ↪️ (shifted), ❓ (open / status unknown), or n/a (not applicable this week).
When the week had a planned run shape (Phase 3 of week mode, recorded in the week banner), compare actuals against that shape rather than the static skeleton. A run that landed on a different day but served its purpose is a hit, not a shift; the shape is a default, and honoring it loosely is the point.
Phase 4: Compute the Numbers
| Metric | Sources |
|---|
| Total miles | Sum of Strava run distances (km * 0.621371) |
| Long run miles | The longest run / trail run of the week |
| Vert ft | Sum of Strava elevation gain across runs (m * 3.28084) |
| Weight | Sunday morning weigh-in if available; otherwise note as pending |
Compare each against the plan row. Express delta as percentage and direction.
Vert is co-equal with mileage. The plan tracks both; the retro evaluates against both. Hitting mileage and missing vert (e.g., long run on flat terrain instead of trail) is a partial hit, not a hit.
From Wk 7 onward the plan numbers are ceilings, not floors (see the Maximums recalibration note in 2026-training-plan.md). A positive delta against a back-half row is a breach to flag in Phase 5, not an overachievement to celebrate.
Phase 5: Load Safety Check
Run this every retro, right after the numbers and before interrogating deltas. The historical injury driver was not peak volume but ramp speed and the clustering of long and vertical days: the 2026-04 spike of 31 mi with three trail efforts in five days, and the 2026-06 stack of a high-effort Friday long onto a 14er the next morning. The under-performance triggers miss this entirely, so check the over-side explicitly. Four checks against the week's actuals:
- Ceiling breach. Compare actual weekly miles, weekly vert, and longest single day against the week's MAX in the plan row. Any value over its ceiling is a breach. State the amount over.
- Ramp. Compare this week's actual mileage to the prior week's actual (read the previous
### Wk N retro's Numbers row). An increase over roughly 15% is a flag, stated as a percentage. Ramp off a low base (returning from a layoff) is the highest risk; call it out even when the absolute mileage looks modest.
- Clustering. Scan the week's Strava activities for two big days within 48 hours of each other, where a big day is any effort over 8 mi or over 1,000 ft. The specific pattern to catch is a Saturday 14er or trail day stacked on the back of the Friday long. One flag per cluster.
- Recovery read (heart rate). Pull
mcp__claude_ai_Strava__get_activity_performance for the week's easy and recovery-labeled runs, and get_athlete_zones for the Z2 ceiling. Two signals: (a) easy days that are not actually easy, with average HR drifting above the Z2 ceiling; (b) HR at a comparable easy pace climbing across the week, which reads as accumulating fatigue. Note either; absence of both is worth one line of reassurance.
If any flag fires, carry it into Phase 6 and Phase 8: a load safety flag is as much a reason to step the next week down as an under-performance miss is. Record the outcome in the retro's Load Check section. When all four are clean, say so in one line and move on.
Phase 6: Interrogate Significant Deltas
When the numbers show significant divergence from plan — mileage 30%+ under, long run missed entirely, two consecutive weeks of misses, or weight off trajectory — interrogate the cause before writing the retro. Numbers alone are not the read; they are the symptom. The cause shapes the adjustment.
Categories worth surfacing via AskUserQuestion:
- Injury or body: pain, soreness, illness, recovery debt
- Schedule / life: travel, work compression, family obligations, social
- Motivation / state: low energy, emotional load, post hard week dip
- Conditions: weather, gear, route or logistics
Ask one focused question for category, then leave room for the user to fill in detail in chat. When the cause is medical (injury, illness), explicitly prompt for any provider notes, AI consults, or external feedback the user wants captured verbatim or summarized. Capture that context in the retro's "The Read" — it shapes adjustment more than the numbers do.
Skip this phase only when the retro lands at or above plan with no meaningful gap.
Phase 7: Write the Retro Subsection
Append a new subsection at the bottom of the Weekly Retrospectives section in 2026-training-plan.md. Use this skeleton (note the heading levels: ### for the week, #### for the inner sections so the table of contents stays clean):
### Wk N: ISO YYYY-WNN (Mon Date to Sun Date)
*Phase: <phase>.*
#### Coverage
| Session | Plan | Actual |
|---|---|---|
...
#### Numbers
| Metric | Plan | Actual | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total miles | ... | ... | ... |
| Long run miles | ... | ... | ... |
| Vert ft | ... | ... | ... |
| Weight | ... | ... | ... |
#### Load Check
<One line each: ceiling (within, or breached by X), ramp (+X% vs last week), clustering (none, or Sat 14er on Fri long), recovery (easy days easy, no HR drift). State clean explicitly when clean.>
#### The Read
<2 to 4 short paragraphs on what hit, what slipped, what's open. Be specific and direct. Avoid effusive praise or hedging.>
#### Carry Forward
<Bullets for next week: structural fixes, defended slots, calibration adjustments.>
#### Open Items
<Things unresolved at retro time, e.g. lift status pending Strava upload or user confirmation.>
Before writing, present the draft inline and ask the user one question via AskUserQuestion: anything to add or correct? Save after they confirm or redirect. Use Edit to insert the new subsection at the end of the Weekly Retrospectives section, immediately before the ## References heading.
Phase 8: Plan Adjustment Check
Compare the just-written retro to the current week's plan row. When the retro shows under-coverage — long run missed, weekly mileage 30%+ under, two weeks in a row of misses, or weight off trajectory — the current week's targets likely need to step down rather than press forward. The same step-down applies when Phase 5 fired a load safety flag (ceiling breach, ramp over ~15%, or clustered big days): lower the ceiling and space the big days before continuing the build. Per the standing guardrail, any calf, heel, or foot signal drops the next week to the current week's numbers, no exceptions.
Propose adjustment options to the user via AskUserQuestion. Typical levers:
- Long run target: hold the plan number, drop to last week's actual, or drop further to rebuild rhythm
- Vert target: same logic, often paired with the mileage call
- Phase shift: if drift is severe, treat the current week as a recovery / rebuild rather than continuing the build progression
After the user decides, update the row in 2026-training-plan.md to reflect the adjusted targets. Annotate inline so both numbers stay visible — e.g., 20 (adjusted from 22). The original plan and the adjustment trace together.
Skip this phase only when the retro shows the week landed at or above plan.
Phase 9: Surface Trends
After saving, briefly scan the prior 1 to 2 retro subsections already in the plan file (if they exist). Surface any pattern: repeated misses, drifting metrics, growing or shrinking adherence. Keep this short — one or two sentences. Do not invent patterns when there is not enough data.
Key Locations
| Name | Address |
|---|
| Movement RiNo | 3201 Walnut St #107, Denver, CO 80205 |
Learned Rules
See learned-rules.md for live, mutable training rules. Stable conventions live in this file; corrections and current life shape rules go there.
