re: Official Running Log/Marathon Training Thread

My wife bought me some goofy foot flasher thingies that go on heel. One fell off somewhere on a long rainy run. I doubt I'll replace.

I always run w a hat, and my camping headlamps are light but still annoying. I need a little lightweight clip on. My neighborhood is good for night running as long as I stick to streets and not sidewalks.

This summer needs to gtfo. I'm going to do my 5k race route + miles before and after at dusk.

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REI had em on sale for 65 yesterday. Bought them on the spot with free shipping to boot. Might want to check that out.

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Just grabbed a pair. Of course I didn't stop there. Ended up hitting the outlet section and spent $160 total.

1 mile warm up 4x400 ith 2 minutes rest. Finished off with an easy cool down to end at 4 miles total including the walking between 400's.

Was supposed to just run an easy mile than hit up another 4x400,but squats and deadlifts the day before have me tight and sore. I guess I didn't realize I hadn't had a leg day in the gym in 2 weeks and it affected me more than I thought. Plus first day of intervals in a looooooong time. Will finish it all next time. Going to be a fun 5 miler today.

How much would you all think is too much for a running coach? I’m meeting with one today that owns a facility. Includes personal training, TRX classes, and personalized nutrition/training plans. Plus group runs and race discounts.

He and his coaches are some of the only ones I’ve found that have legit credentials outside of experience and good times. Seems like anyone who can run a sub-4 hour marathon thinks they’re qualified to be a running coach. I want someone who has experience with injury prevention and an understanding of fixing form problems.

I imagine this is going to be pricey but I just can’t keep having runs like this morning.

4 miles. 49 minutes total.

Yeah, I walked 1.5 minutes to the start point and stopped to tie my shoes. There are two small hills on the loop. So subtract what? 5 minutes? 11 minutes/mile? At 33 years old running almost 30 miles a week? When I felt like I was pushing it?

Something’s off.

Birmingham.

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How much would you all think is too much for a running coach?

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Depends on what you get out of it. I paid $220 a month for a triathlon coach, but they had a weekly track night, 4 coached swim sessions a week, seminars on recovery/nutrition/transition/race day prep/etc.. Also got a lot of deals on equipment through their sponsors, such as a wetsuit for under $100. The coaching was meh to be honest. He got me to the finish line in a respectable manner, and that's all I was looking for. But for someone really pushing performance, I'd look elsewhere. Overall wasn't upset about the money spent, but I know more now and would likely shop coaches harder. The group training I got out of it was really great though.

There's a guy down the street from me who coached D1 running. He charges $125 a month for just running. $150 and you get some one on one coaching in person as well. He's doing this on the side and keeps it pretty small. I actually like that (was kind of just a number with the other coaching group). For someone with a facility and a lot of actual face to face coaching, I'd say somewhere in that 150-200 a month range. At least where I'm located.

Flip side is there is almost no reason to need someone where you live unless you really get something out of face to face training. One of the tri coaches I "interviewed" was out of Chicago and we started out by chatting on a message board. Might reach out again around December as I really liked his approach. Now that I'm no longer doing Ironman distance races, I will do all bike rides indoors and I can self motivate through 2500 yds of swimming. My coach can put my workout in training peaks and I'm good to go. For the 6 hour bikes and long swim sessions, having a coach there with others doing the same workout was huge though, so it was a benefit to have a local coach for IM.

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150-200 a month range

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That’s what I’m worried about but expecting. That’s too pricey for me honestly. Maybe just running with a group would help.

4.25 easy/recovery this morning @ 8:50 pace. Felt good to shake the soreness from yesterday's long run.

Yesterdays speed work
1.5 mile warm up
4.5 build to 10k pace
1 mile cool down

4.5 build mile paces: 8:45 (half mile), 8:26, 8:13, 7:50, 7:11

Bonk! 4th garbage run in a row so I feel ya.

If I could guess, mine is a perfect storm of my body giving out from an entire summer of afternoon runs, shoes starting to go bust even though I've only got about 300ish on them, nerves from the first race this weekend, and I started taking glucosamine chondroitin and my body just isn't having it.

Tomorrow I'll get a slow 2-3 and end it with about 5-6 strides and hope I can muster something on race day Saturday.

I'll tell you this, the hardest thing is going to get myself out of my own head before Saturday.