I'm halfway through week 7 of 13 in Coach Greg's Half Marathon training plan. Every run has been programmed as an "easy run" with a "long easy run" once per week. And other than easy runs switching according to a pattern every other week between 30 and 40 minutes and the long run increasing most weeks, there's been no variation in the workouts.
Supposedly, at least according to coach Greg's opening video, this training plan is "a combination of different workouts, designed to help you build speed, and increase distance. This includes steady state runs where you maintain your pace for the entire workout, as well as pace and tempo runs where you'll push yourself harder for a set period of time. As the weeks go by the long run in your workout plan will grow steadily longer and longer, that way, you'll have the confidence that you'll be able to run a half marathon in your desired time.... Since the plan is adaptive it will progress when you're ready to move on to the next step. So if you're achieving at a high level, you'll progress through the plan more quickly...."
Anyway, I'm either doing something wrong or coach Greg is a liar. There hasn't been one "pace" or "tempo" run. And I'm worried that I'm not progressing as quickly as I could if there were some of the promised variation in the training experience.
