Training

Getting your training plan into Gauge

If you're training for an event, Gauge grades each day partly on what you're going to do, not just what you've already done. That means it needs your plan. There are three ways in, and once a session is there you can change it.

Start a training block first

Plans live inside a training block (endurance athletes only). On the Training screen, set your event name, type, and race day, plus how you want to handle weight during the block — Maintain, Gentle, Standard, or Max — then tap Start training block.

Three ways to get sessions in

Subscribe to a calendar. If your coach or training app publishes a calendar feed, connect it once and sessions arrive on their own — including changes made after the fact. This is the least work and the least likely to drift, so try it first.

Import a screenshot or pasted text.

On your active block, tap Import plan.
Pick the Week starting date. This matters: day names in your plan ("Tue: 6mi easy") map onto that week.
Either Choose screenshot (a photo of your plan) or paste the text and tap Parse text. Text like "Mon: rest / Tue: 6mi easy / Wed: 8x400m" works well.
Review the Found N sessions — confirm list. Remove anything that parsed wrong with the trash icon, then tap Add to plan.

If nothing is found, try a clearer screenshot — or paste the plan as text, which is the most reliable path. If you've connected a calendar, that supersedes importing; you don't need both.

Add them by hand. Tap Add a session on any day.

Changing a session

Tap any session on the Training screen to edit it. You can rename it, change its type, set the expected duration and distance, move it to another day, or remove it from the plan.

Moving a session is editing its day — there's no separate control, because "move it to Saturday" and "I put it on the wrong day" are the same correction.

You don't need to re-import a week to fix one session, and you shouldn't: editing changes exactly what you meant to change.

Why the details matter

Expected duration is the field that does the most work. Before you've run a session, it's what Gauge uses to size the day — so correcting a 90-minute long run to 120 moves that day's calories and carbohydrate, and pushes it past the 75-minute mark where in-session fuelling appears.

What happens after

Sessions appear in your This week and Next week rows, and your targets rebuild immediately: more calories and carbs on hard and long days, less on rest days. Within three weeks of your event, taper protection kicks in — you'll see "Taper — deficit paused, carbs stay up."

Once you've actually done a session, what you did takes over from what was planned. Follow the plan and it keeps the plan's description; cut it short and the day is graded on what happened instead.