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Garmin coach bug 10k with Jeff

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Former Member over 5 years ago

I started the 10k coach with Jeff, but seems wrong. 

  • Week 2 is getting me running 11k, sure if I was doing a marathon maybe but my goal is only 10k. doesn’t seem right? Anyone else having this issue.

  • Also my long run day is set to a Saturday but it’s scheduling it each week for Monday. 

  • kinda annoying that it includes hill runs, as part of the training, when i don’t have a hill for miles around. Anyone have any alternatives? 
  • +1 over 4 years ago

    I also have this issue - my first long run was 11 k and now this week it’s 17k for a 10 k race. I’m starting to feel Sick on my runs and it’s feels too far too fast (I’m only on week 3 of a 3 month program). I feel like the 10 k material is correct but the actual workout calendar must be for a half marathon surely? 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Same problem, my next long run is  just over 20k! My long run was set for Sunday but got scheduled on Tuesday..corrected when I skipped a session.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I got frustrated too by this schedule. At week 10 the program planned a "Long Easy Run". On this day I did 21.46 km! The first 12 km went quite well but afterwards I was just walking home slowly and frustrated, feeling like a complete looser. At least I won the "Half Marathon" Badge (yippie).

    Could anybody explain the reason of a 20k training run for a 10k program?

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    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to schneeleopard

    Did anyone get to the bottom of this? I've read some things saying its a bug. I'm in week 2 and am meant to be running 11k today.. I've not run over 6km in a year so that definitely won't be happening. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Unfortunately Garmin’s response was to stand behind the program. They affirm that running farther than your goal on a regular basis using the walk-run method is the way to go. I spoke with a pro track athlete and he said the same thing that he regular runs double the distance he’s training to race in. However, I am not a pro and was just looking for a regular run program that won’t result in injury...this program ramped up too quickly and did give me an injury, so I unfortunately had to quit. Such a shame as I really enjoyed the program up to that point. Also the fact that you can’t see an overview of your training runs ahead of time, it was disappointing to arrive at a VERY long run and then not be able to complete it.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    What I ended up doing was a short distance, especially when there were half marathons! The whole point of the 10k program was not to commit to such long runs due to time etc. You could easily do a long distance but it takes longer and you need to find the right pace from the run-walk-run chart.  Not only the long run, the repeats of 15 x800m were just too much, I won't be doing this program again.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I'm only in my fourth week of training, and I am supposed to run 14x800m (around 17k in total) on Sunday and 21k on Tuesday. My long run day is on Sunday, it doesn't make sense - I can't just casually run a half marathon on a week day. 

    I've also never done such long runs before, and two consecutive ones definitely sounds too much. If this is the fourth week, I wonder how much I'll have to run later, it's completely crazy. 

    Not only is this dangerous as my body isn't prepared, but it's also completely discouraging. What's the point in having a training plan that I can't follow?

    (+ In the "why 10k is a good distance" article they say that we can be expected to run up to 13k.)

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 3882948

    it gets longer, a lot longer and even more 800m runs. The idea is you walk a fair bit of it depending on your pace but that only means you need to set aside hours and hours. It's not a good program for 10k but a great technique for running long distance injury free. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I'm following this plan to run 10km under 50min. I'm at the end (week 12) ad it was very hard, but beautiful. I've never thought to be able to run 25km (long easy at 6:15/km) or to do 20*800m at 4:40/km (the hardest of all trainings, 24km in total, 2h30min), but finally I did!.

    My Vo2max in 12 weeks improved from 47 to 50, my anaerobic threshold is now at 5:00/km with 173bpm, I've lost 7kg of fat (I'm 45 years old and 67kg for 181cm) and I'm ready to beat the time, maybe trying to do 48min

    Just 1 thing to improve: the plan doesn't give you the pace of "long easy run" for your level of fitness, I had to find it from some sites on the net. It would be a great help to have the right pace to mantain directly from th smartwatch (I have Fenix 6 Pro solar)