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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.

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

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Maddee_6333Graduate10 in reply to Grannyhugs

Thanks.

Good job it was only the one!

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SueAppleRunGraduate1060minGraduate

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

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Maddee_6333Graduate10 in reply to SueAppleRun

Thanks.

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

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SueAppleRunGraduate1060minGraduate in reply to Maddee_6333

I have started short sprints but they are short

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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!! 😃❤️

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Maddee_6333Graduate10 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.

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Fabulous450Graduate10 in reply to Maddee_6333

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

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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.

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Maddee_6333Graduate10 in reply to UnfitNoMore

That does help. Thanks 😊

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linda9389Graduate10

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 😍😍

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Maddee_6333Graduate10 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.

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linda9389Graduate10 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 profile image
Maddee_6333Graduate10 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 🤣

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linda9389Graduate10 in reply to Maddee_6333

😍😍😍

Sandie1961 profile image
Sandie1961Graduate10 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.

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linda9389Graduate10 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 profile image
Sandie1961Graduate10 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!

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linda9389Graduate10 in reply to Sandie1961

sounds perfect :)

Maddee_6333 profile image
Maddee_6333Graduate10 in reply to Sandie1961

That sounds like a great plan.

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

skysue16 profile image
skysue16Graduate10

Oh my that is fast!!

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Maddee_6333Graduate10 in reply to skysue16

It really was! And hard work.

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