What is a post-race rest day and how do I change it?

After a race you need to recover, and TrainAsONE sets aside a period of rest for you. Those days now have a visible place in your calendar.

How a post-race rest day looks

A post-race rest day carries a small green bed marker next to the date. Hovering it explains the day: “You have defined this day as a rest day following the {race name}”. The cell is tinted light green — the same idea as a locked day’s tint, but green rather than amber.

Where the number of rest days comes from

The length of your rest follows a single chain:

1. The race’s “Post race rest days” value — the number you set when you enter the race. It is a minimum: TrainAsONE may give you more if it judges that extra rest would help.
2. Your profile default — the Post race rest days setting in your Training Settings, used whenever the race field is left blank.
3. No rest block — if neither is set.

Two fine points:

• Leaving the race field blank means “use my profile default”; setting it to 0 means “no rest days” and does not fall back to the default.
• The value is taken from the race your run is linked to — the race workout the activity matches — not merely from a race that falls on the same date.

See How do I schedule X days of rest following my upcoming race?.

A rest day, not a lock

A post-race rest day is a default, never a lock — it does not freeze the day, and you stay in charge:

• Return to training early: on a rest day, use “Let TrainAsONE plan this day”. This asks TrainAsONE to schedule a run for that date (it triggers a plan update) and the rest day is dropped.
• Take more rest: mark a following, non-rest day as a no-run day with “I cannot run on this day”; or, before you race, raise the race’s Post race rest days value.
• Skipping is not offered on the rest day itself: the day is already a rest day, so “I cannot run on this day” would say nothing new. The action you want there is “Let TrainAsONE plan this day”.

When a rest day meets a rolling lock

A post-race rest day wins over a rolling lock: a day inside both shows the green rest day, not the lock. If you had deliberately locked that day yourself, the lock stays available to release as usual.

If you did not run the race

No race run, no recovery block — a race you entered but did not run does not create post-race rest days.

Tip: The rest days run from the day you actually ran, not from the date you had entered. If a rest day looks wrong, remember that the count starts at the race itself.

See also Why does TrainAsONE seem to schedule hard workouts too soon after my race? and What is a rolling lock and how do I release it?.