> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.time2.bike/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Practices
> Schedule a practice, and time your own athletes with the same tools used at real races.
A **practice** is a timing-only session your team runs for itself. No
registration, no pricing, nothing public — but it uses the full Time2Bike timing
stack, so a Tuesday interval session is timed exactly the way a race is.
Open the **Practices** tab. You'll see it if you're a **coach**, **manager**,
team **admin**, or **owner**.
> !!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — The **Practices** tab in calendar view with the "Up next" card at the top.
Your entire active roster is entered into every practice automatically. You
never enter anyone.
## Creating a practice
> !!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — The **New practice** modal with two activities added.
`Tuesday intervals`. Location is optional.
A practice holds one or more **activities**, and each activity is timed
separately. Pick from:
| Activity | What it runs |
| --------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Time trial** | Per-rider gate starts, several riders on course at once |
| **Endurance / lap ride** | Open-ended lap accumulation, credits each lap and tracks best lap |
| **Dual slalom** | Head-to-head brackets |
| **Group ride / mass start** | Everyone off at once |
| **Short track** | Lap-based short track |
Endurance and short track let you set a target lap count — leave it blank
for an open-ended ride.
The practice appears on the calendar.
## Two activities at once
This is the point of activities. Each one gets **its own clock**, so a time
trial, an endurance lap ride, and a dual-slalom bracket can run at the same time
under one practice — each on a different phone, with a different coach, and
nobody has to coordinate.
The operator screen picks the right surface per activity automatically.
## Timing a practice
Every practice row has a **Time it** button that drops you straight onto the
operator screen. The practice happening today — or the next one, or the most
recent — is pulled out into a loud card at the top of the page, because on a
phone at the trailhead that should be the only thing you need to hit.
From there, everything in the [Live Timing](/timing/overview) documentation
applies: recording finishes, fixing mistakes, offline capture, and so on.
Drop-ins who aren't on the roster can be added at the timer. You don't have to
fix the roster first.
## Calendar and list views
* **Calendar** — the month, with practice days highlighted. Tap a day to see
what's on it. Opens on the month that actually has something in it.
* **List** — grouped by month, newest first.
## Seasons
Create a season (`Fall 2026`) and tag practices to it. Then filter the practice
list, and the [clipboard](/teams/clipboard), to one season at a time.
Seasons are created from the **Results** tab — **New season**.
## Re-syncing the roster
The refresh icon on a practice row re-enters your current roster. Use it when
athletes joined the team after you created the practice — they won't be in it
otherwise.
## What's happening behind the scenes
Worth knowing, because it explains a few things you'll see:
* A practice is an ordinary event marked as a practice, hidden from every public
surface. That's why it inherits the whole timing stack unchanged.
* If your team isn't attached to an organization, Time2Bike quietly provisions a
hidden one to own your practices. You never see it, it has no Stripe account,
and nothing under it can be paid for.
* Your coaches and managers are mirrored into that hidden org with the minimum
permission needed to run the operator screen. Athletes aren't — they're the
people being timed.
## Next
What to do with the times once you've collected them.