Marginalia

I decided to train for a marathon this fall, so I looked online for some training plans. Once I found a plan to use, I wanted an easy way to import the training plan into my calendar. I thought it might be cool to write a little tool to let me copy/paste from the training plan website and generate an ICS file to import into the calendar.

I wrote such a tool in python, posted here: https://github.com/matthewbeckler/training_plan_to_ics

You should customize the script by editing five things in the python file:

1. Set a start_date or end_date below (but not both).
2. Copy/paste the tab-split training plan table into the raw_data string.
3. Then add day_of_week_details entries for each day of the week (if you want).
4. If you want an URL added to the end of the details, add one to the url variable below.
5. The output ICS file will be written to the file output_filename, change this filename if you like.

Once the script is run, you can import the ICS file into your calendar system.