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Coach half marathon

I trained successfully for the 10km with coach Jeff. Now I want make the step to the half marathon in April 2024 with a 10 miles event in februari. I want to train 3 times a week.

Is following the coach program the best way? (Maximum of 20 weeks so I have to wait for 3 more weeks….). Or is the race plan/daily suggested the best way. Problem is that I cannot run every day and it’s psychological frustrating to skip/ignor the daily suggested workout. Thnks for your advices.

Joël

0 Etupes25 over 1 year ago

The best way is to combine both.

(a) use the daily suggestions driven by a race event in your calendar. This will give you workout and targets immediately appropriate based on your current performance. The coach program will have you start "from scratch"

(b) don't hesitate to replace some of the suggested workouts by some of the workouts you have seen with Jeff. Might be cadence or acceleration drills instead of plain base workouts, hill repeats instead of anaerobic workouts (although you will not get as much anaerobic TE for those alas), speed repeats instead of sprints. You would recreate these workouts manually. It is not an obligation as the daily suggestions are absolutely OK.

(c) if you are 40 or older, definitely run every other day. Jeff's Run Walk Run method is excellent. I run slighlty faster (maybe 20s/mi) than the target for a certain duration than walk for 30s. Since the watch creates an alert after 30s off target, it works out well.

0 6831649 over 1 year ago in reply to Etupes25

Thanks! So when i start the coach program I still can see the daily suggestions (based on the race event, combined with my training readiness) to determine if the coach program is oké for that day? And if it isn’t I can skip the coach activity for that day and start the daily suggested workout?

Still learning to use and understand my first Garmin gadget you see but i like it !

and yes…. I’m older than 40

0 Etupes25 over 1 year ago in reply to 6831649

6831649 said:
So when i start the coach program I still can see the daily suggestions (based on the race event, combined with my training readiness) to determine if the coach program is oké for that day?

If you start a coach program, the watch will show you its workout by default. You can still add an event and see the Race training plan daily suggestions under run>training>workout library>suggestions.

However, I would not start a coach program at this point. I would just use the daily suggestions and run every other day.

The daily suggestions are just fine to prep you for your race. Again, if you really want to get fancy, you can replace some of the workouts by manual workouts if you miss traditional workouts like hill repeats, speed repeats, fartleks, etc.