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Coach Greg Half Marathon Plan: Midway Through Switch to Only Easy Runs

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over 3 years ago

I am on Week 8 of 13 for my upcoming half marathon. So far everything has been great and I had 2-3 weeks of buildup with easy runs, then past few weeks have been mixed with workouts (stride repeats/speed intervals/goal pace run/progression runs, etc.)

My long runs are on the weekends, but last weekend I went shorter than the prescribed time and got a "room to grow" rating. I figured it wasn't that big of a deal, my confidence was still in the purple zone... and yet much to my shock the next week's workout schedule was 4x Easy Runs of only 30 mins.

I was so confused, I tried refreshing and switching some inputs in the plan as I have seen others say that will help rejigger everything... but no luck. Still all easy runs of 30 mins. 

I have ~5 weeks left of my plan and it seems like the next 2 weeks are scheduled as if I just started the plan, short easy runs of presumably 3-4 miles. I don’t think it's appropriate that 1 shorter than prescribed long run should make me start from scratch... is this a known glitch or is there a way to get me back on schedule? 

Thanks!!

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I'd love Garmin to comment on the many posts concerning this situation. Im into week 3 and all easy so far with first couple of week 4 the same. Cant see beyond that yet. Hate to think Im going to do 17 weeks of this !

    Come on Garmin, whats the score

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to jsmee

    Same here, all coach Greg tells me to do is easy runs... I have no clue how he expects me to do the HM in 1h32m... The plan feels really useless. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I have the same issue. This really stresses me. I would not have started this in the first place. I tried to switch to the female trainer now. But i really have lost trust in this.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I'm in the same situation, did it ever fixed for you?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to David G

    Well I can’t remember how many weeks of easy runs there was but eventually they started to become longer/faster etc

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Hi, I’m in the same situation !!! I have 4 weeks left in the plan before my HM and I only have easy runs and goal pace runs planned. I don’t have any long runs since 2-3 weeks !

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 8970890

    Same with me, my race is on October 1st and for past week and next week it's just easy runs or runs on goal pace

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I’m doing a 21-week coach Greg plan to run half marathon in 1h38m. I’m in week 16 now and last long run / progressive run / speed repeats were all in week 13 and prior. Since then, it’s alternating easy runs and goal pace runs - all less than an hour long. I have completed all but one run throughout the program and am matching all the goal paces. Confidence is high (in the purple). I did notice his plan says it is for 12-16 week training plans and I wondered if maybe it kicks you into a holding pattern if you schedule the plan for longer than this? Is that perhaps what is happening for you all as well?