Readiness Check
The Readiness Check is the second tab of a Training Plan. It measures your fitness, training history, and load patterns against what the event demands. This page covers what it reports.
It runs from the event alone. You do not need to generate a plan first, and generating one is not implied by looking. Entering a race you have just heard about and reading the verdict is a complete use of this tab — the question "am I in shape for this?" is answered from your actual training history, before you commit to anything.
Verdict
One of 3 outcomes:
| Verdict | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Ready | You are prepared for this event |
| Ready with Cautions | You can race, but some areas need attention |
| Underprepared | Key gaps remain — the goal is worth revisiting |
Cautions lists the specific issues found, up to 6 shown.
Fitness Trend
Modeled CTL (fitness), ATL (fatigue), and TSB (form) leading into the race, with dashed lines for projections. See Dashboard & Performance — Fitness Trend for how to read the chart and what the 3 values mean.
Race-day projection
Three scenarios, compared:
- Recommended — train normally, then taper
- Full Rest — stop training from today
- No Taper — hold current load through race day
Each shows projected fitness, fatigue, and form on race day, plus a readiness label: Optimal, Very fresh, Good, Fatigued, Low fitness, or Deconditioned.
Event-specific checks
Each of these passes, warns, or fails against the demands of your event:
- Weekly volume
- Long runs
- Back-to-back days
- Climbing specificity
- Time on feet
- Easy versus hard balance
- Recovery
- Training progression
Model assumptions
A collapsible list of what the assessment assumed where your data was incomplete. Worth opening when a verdict looks wrong — it usually explains why.
Checking a race at short notice
Because the check needs only an event, it works as a standing capability question rather than a step in setting up a plan:
- Create the event with its date, distance, and elevation.
- Open the Readiness Check and read the verdict and cautions.
- Generate a plan if you decide to enter, or delete the event if you decide against it.
The event-specific checks are what make the answer useful here. A verdict of Ready with Cautions naming climbing specificity and time on feet tells you what the gap is, not just that one exists.
What it does not know
Readiness summarizes preparation from the data Basecamp has. It does not know how you feel, and it does not account for illness, sleep, soreness, weather, or activities that never made it to Strava.