First day of a new plan

[Maddee_6333]

I do like to have a plan, as it gives me something to aim for. This time I’m venturing into Half Marathon territory again.

I also like to mix it up with the plans I use, so this time I’ve gone with Nike Run Club. I set it up on Sunday, at which point it asked me to go for a run that same day, but I’d already been out. So I’m calling today Day 1. It was a threshold run, and wow! it was hard work. Not helped by the fact that I ran this afternoon, and I am actually much happier running in the morning. Still, it was a gloriously sunny afternoon, if cold, and I didn’t have to go far, just fast for 3 minutes 🤪

Luckily the app seems to actually give the pace for each interval, rather than each kilometre, so I can actually see how fast I ran for those 3 minutes - 5:29/k \o/ which is fast for me.

Lady coach is not too ‘girly’ which is great, but I thought I’d set it to a male voice, and I only got that as a voice over to tell me when I was halfway through the run, not actually as my coach.

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

Sounds like a great plan, good luck. That’s fast intervals . Have fun and enjoy

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to Grannyhugs]

Thanks.

Good job it was only the one!

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate]

That’s very fast, impressive lucky it wasn’t too long enjoy your plan

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun]

Thanks.

I definitely couldn’t have kept it up for much longer.

[SueAppleRun Graduate10 60minGraduate in reply to Maddee_6333]

I have started short sprints but they are short

[Fabulous450 Graduate10]

Sounds like you’re off to a brilliant start with your plan!! 🤩I use Nike Run Club too! 😁 It offers to adapts as you go along based on the previous run stats.

I really like the variety of the guided runs that they have too. You can always add a run to the stats if you’ve done something extra and you can assign a run to one closest in your plan if you’ve done something different 🤓. I don’t have anything to compare it with, but I like it a lot! Enjoy!! 😃❤️

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to Fabulous450]

I liked the guided ‘Mystery Run’ I did last week, it was my first experience with the app. I will probably do a few more over the course of the plan.

[Fabulous450 Graduate10 in reply to Maddee_6333]

There’s nothing like a mystery!! It makes it so much fun! 😃❤️

[UnfitNoMore Graduate10]

Well done getting started. There are some distance based guided runs which will be compatible with the plan 100% and a lot of time based ones in “long runs” 35 minutes plus, or “short runs” for up to 30 minutes. As you have a target pace, a little pre run calculation can give you a run of pretty much the right length. These are all fully coached runs. When you have an active plan and complete a guided run, it will ask you to map the run to one of the current week once you’ve finished.

The other option, if you have a Garmin, is to link connect and NRC (in the partners section of the Nike app) and then any run you do on Garmin will sync over, appearing in history at the top with a “requires action” or similar, which can also be mapped to a plan run. So, if I have a 7 miler I can dial up any guided run that’s long enough, and then start one of the right length on my watch... at the end of the run, while Garmin is syncing I can assign the Nike run to the plan and then delete the run... then assign the Garmin run and I’m done. Not 100% simple but easy enough to do.

Hope this helps. Oh, and the actual guided HM is amazing.

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to UnfitNoMore]

That does help. Thanks 😊

[linda9389 Graduate10]

Good luck, sounds interesting. I have a very manual plan I mapped out for my HM in March. Quite tight as I'm only at 5.5k at the moment. Last night I realised I had the wrong date for the event in the plan - should've been 2 weeks earlier 🙈. Took a fair bit if tweaking to sort that - I should've handed the problem over to NRC 😍😍

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

Oh ouch! Good thing you realised.

I do so much better leaving it to an app to sort out, plus? No bits of paper to lose.

Which reminds me, I have to print out a couple of documents while I am here at my daughter’s.

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Maddee_6333]

Mine's on the computer thankfully 😍, although I do kerp meaning to print out the old plans in case I ever mess it up totally 🤣

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

Even though mine are on an app, I sometimes make a rough note of what they’re going to be on the kitchen calendar 🤣

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Maddee_6333]

😍😍😍

[Sandie1961 Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

Don’t know if I am being simplistic or naive, but I am just going to add 1km every 2 weeks from January until mid March in the hope of getting me from 10 miles to HM, together with strength training and bike rides.

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Sandie1961]

Sounds good! You've got lots of time to do that. Will you do other runs in between too? I'm starting at 5.5km just now so it's a bit more tightly packed 🙄

[Sandie1961 Graduate10 in reply to linda9389]

I’ll still do parkrun and do an evening run with my village group - aiming for 2-3 runs a week still!

[linda9389 Graduate10 in reply to Sandie1961]

sounds perfect

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to Sandie1961]

That sounds like a great plan.

I’m not disciplined enough to go it ‘alone’.

[skysue16 Graduate10]

Oh my that is fast!!

[Maddee_6333 Graduate10 in reply to skysue16]

It really was! And hard work.