Season Canvas — Plan your race year.
The Season Canvas is periodiq's core surface: a horizontal year, twelve months wide, with your races as vertical anchors, training phases as colour bands and your weekly volume as a curve on top. One canvas, one season, no scrolling between tabs.
Races, phases and volume on the same timeline.
The Season Canvas stacks three layers on the same x-axis. Race markers (A, B, C) sit on top. The phase ribbon (base, build, peak, taper, recovery) runs underneath. Weekly planned and actual volume form the curve. Move a race; everything below it adjusts.
Because a season is one thing, not 52 weeks.
Week-by-week tools optimise for the next session. A canvas optimises for the whole arc: does the build leave enough room for the taper? Are the C races stacked too close to the A race? The Season Canvas answers those questions in one glance — they're structural, not weekly.
Actual volume arrives on its own.
Plan volume goes onto the canvas once. Strava sync pulls completed weekly volume in automatically. The plan curve and the actual curve live on the same canvas — the delta is visible without opening a second view.
Your plan, made visible.
The Season Canvas isn't a training plan — it's a planning surface for your own training. No AI prescriptions, no daily checkin loops. Just your season, drawn so you can keep it in your head all year.
Frequently asked
- What is the Season Canvas?
- It is periodiq's core surface: a horizontal year with races as vertical anchors, training phases as colour bands and weekly volume as a curve on top. Everything for one season lives on a single screen, with no scrolling between tabs.
- Why plan on a canvas instead of week by week?
- Week-by-week tools optimise for the next session; a canvas optimises for the whole arc. Questions like “does the build leave room for the taper?” or “are the C races stacked too close to the A race?” are structural — the canvas answers them at a glance.
- Does the canvas show actual training, not just the plan?
- Yes. Planned volume goes onto the canvas once; Strava sync pulls in completed weekly volume automatically. The plan curve and the actual curve share the same axis, so the delta is visible without opening a second view.
Draw your season.
Put the races on the canvas. Watch the phases follow. Let Strava fill in the actuals as the year unfolds.
More on season planning
- Running Season Planner Plan your whole running year, race-first — phases derive themselves.
- Race Planning Structure A, B and C races into a periodised season on one canvas.
- Laufplanung Die ganze Laufsaison auf einer Jahresübersicht — vom Wettkampf rückwärts geplant.
- Marathon-Saisonplanung Marathon-Vorbereitung mit Tune-Up-Wettkämpfen, Phasen und Volumen-Welle.