Garmin coach

[SpongePot]

Hi everyone!

Been a while but I am still running . From my C25K graduation in July I have been trying to improve my 5K with a 34 minutes PB. I purchased a Garmin Forerunner 45 and it give me the option to have a training for the 10K with JEff Galloway.Yesterday I went to do the benchmark and after 5min running ( as suggested) I was dead. I could t carry on more I don’t know if was the heat or the fact that these days I have no energy( don’t know why). Anyway any of you that try this garmin coach ? How did you find it ?

Any comments - advice will be appreciate

[Hidden]

Hi! I have the same watch and have seen their plans but never tried one. There is the B210k plan here too although it isn't guided. I think increasing your distance every week would be beneficial especially a longer slower run that you could increase every week. This helps you build stamina and will help with your speed. I'm not sure how the plan works but good luck. Stick with regular running whatever you do!

[SpongePot in reply to Hidden]

Hi thanks , are you suggesting to do the training and my usual run? It will not be too much? I am concern about injures as I had running knee back in May

[Hidden in reply to SpongePot]

I think either carry on with the plan or do something like the B210k but no, not both.

[SpongePot in reply to Hidden]

I will give a try to this plan ... where I can find B210k ? No expert here

[Fionamags Graduate10]

Look for JuJu's Magic Plan in the pinned posts. It gives you the option of either working towards running for 60 minutes or running the 10k distance. Its just a table giving graded increases week by week but its great - lots of us have used it!

[Lizzibeth78]

I used Jeff but for 5k to improve my time. Went from 35 mins to 30 mins using the plan. Even on the 5k plan I got up to running 15k on the last long run.

I really enjoyed following it and liked the different types of run to keep me focused rather than just running a time or distance.

My pace has improved so much - I didn’t think it was then all of a sudden it just all seemed to happen about week 10 of the plan.

I also improved my 10K PB to an hour and 4 mins.

Everyone is different and you have to find what suits you. It took about 3 weeks to get the full picture of all the different runs involved with Garmin coach but it does stick to a 2 weekly cycle.

I couldn’t complete 4 speed repeats the first time I did them, by the end of the plan I did 14!

[SpongePot in reply to Lizzibeth78]

That is good to hear I want to try however part of the training is running hills .. which where I run there aren’t . I will give a try

[Lizzibeth78 in reply to SpongePot]

It doesn’t need to be a big hill. There is a little video that comes up at some point and he gives some tips of what you can use if you don’t have a hill.

Good luck

[SpongePot in reply to Lizzibeth78]

Great thank u very much!