DopeyBadger
Imagathoner
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- Oct 15, 2015
Congrats on an amazing accomplishment!
Why do you feel this way? It’s easy sometimes to look in the rear view and think this, but if you could have averaged close to a 9:30 then why were the last few miles 10:20-11:50? Those miles are a fade and show that if anything the pace to start (around a 9:40) was too quick. If you had gone out faster than 9:40, then based on the fade I would predict your “wall” would have started sooner and your fade would have been more extreme. So what’s your thinking on this?
It’s a decent plan. As always pacing matters a good bit. If he fails to run easy enough, then the plan will not allow him to succeed. It’s also very short speed intensive and light on endurance. So it’s a good plan for someone who has done a good bit of speed work in the past. Because 5 days a week with two speed and one long run is a bit aggressive. So I would call this a moderate level plan. Not a great choice for a beginner if these are not distances he has been doing lately. I would say the person running this will be better prepared for a good 10k than a good HM.
I over compensated the slowing down for the marathon. I believe I could have performed closer to a 9:30 min/mi average pace.
Why do you feel this way? It’s easy sometimes to look in the rear view and think this, but if you could have averaged close to a 9:30 then why were the last few miles 10:20-11:50? Those miles are a fade and show that if anything the pace to start (around a 9:40) was too quick. If you had gone out faster than 9:40, then based on the fade I would predict your “wall” would have started sooner and your fade would have been more extreme. So what’s your thinking on this?
Anyway, like a typical 20 year old (he turns 20 tomorrow), he has to figure things out on his own now (you know...being an adult and all). He let me know of a Nike training plan he started following on Monday. It is a Nike Half Marathon Training Plan that I think uses audio guides through an app. He sent me this link to a PDF description of the plan ( https://www.nike.com/pdf/Nike-Run-Club-Half-Marathon-Training-Plan-Audio-Guided-Runs.pdf )
I was wondering if any of you have reviewed this training plan before and have any insights?
It’s a decent plan. As always pacing matters a good bit. If he fails to run easy enough, then the plan will not allow him to succeed. It’s also very short speed intensive and light on endurance. So it’s a good plan for someone who has done a good bit of speed work in the past. Because 5 days a week with two speed and one long run is a bit aggressive. So I would call this a moderate level plan. Not a great choice for a beginner if these are not distances he has been doing lately. I would say the person running this will be better prepared for a good 10k than a good HM.