Good luck tomorrow DaveP!  Any tracking?

Thanks! Yes, I will be tracking via my Garmin.

Oh, you mean for other people? Don't see anything on the website, but they sent me an email. Looks like you can sign up for live tracking alerts or get results at finish. Or you can just wait till I post here, but I imagine ain't nobody got time for that.

 

Thanks, and being self coached is where it's at IMO.  You know you the best, and it's fairly easy to work up a schedule. Even if you use a coach for a season, afterwards you should know how to do it for your self. Coaches make money by keeping people coming to them, when they could easily do it themselves. It's not rocket science.

Some people I know prefer to blindly follow a schedule that was thought through and makes sense as a whole. I'm not saying this negatively as some of them are better runners than I'll ever be. It's a matter of choice and preference IMO.

I like doing my own thing, and that is what I do, inpired from canned programs and all the stuff I read and from people posting the workouts they get from knowledgeable coaches.

What I would like, sometimes, is an external look at what I do, and maybe given props on what I do good and suggestions on aspects that could be improved or worked differently. But I never got around to it.

So although I agree with you, I get that some runners prefer having it all cooked and ready to eat.

 

Thanks, and being self coached is where it's at IMO.  You know you the best, and it's fairly easy to work up a schedule. Even if you use a coach for a season, afterwards you should know how to do it for your self. Coaches make money by keeping people coming to them, when they could easily do it themselves. It's not rocket science.

The flip side is that's what I've been doing & seeing no results. I really bumped up my mileage between 2014 and 2015 (1000/year to 1500/year). I have run 1 PR since doing that and it came early in 2015. Shorter distances have been slower. So I figured this would be an experiment. There is definitely a balance of being pushed to do a workout outside of my comfort zone versus a workout I stand little to no chance of completing. I'll have to see if there is a pay off.

Ginny, I just looked at the Daniel's calculator again for comparison and it definitely has a slower easy pace. Most days mine has been slower than that. What he calls marathon pace is the fast side of easy according to McMillan.

 

Thanks! Yes, I will be tracking via my Garmin.

Oh, you mean for other people? Don't see anything on the website, but they sent me an email. Looks like you can sign up for live tracking alerts or get results at finish. Or you can just wait till I post here, but I imagine ain't nobody got time for that.

signed up!

I am pretty sure I wouldn't make myself do as hard of workouts as my coach has me do. But if you can, good for you.

I guess that is the real advantage of a coach; accountability and the ability for someone to oversee what you are doing and say back off or kick you in the butt some.

 

Thanks, and being self coached is where it's at IMO.  You know you the best, and it's fairly easy to work up a schedule. Even if you use a coach for a season, afterwards you should know how to do it for your self. Coaches make money by keeping people coming to them, when they could easily do it themselves. It's not rocket science.

There's more to coaching than putting together a schedule.

 

It's not the complicated-ness that makes it better but the variety and always having new workouts is what I like.  Even after 2 years with Addie I am still getting new workouts, almost every week and it makes it a little less tedious

Very inspiring ideas, too!