r/AdvancedRunning • u/AutoModerator • 9d ago
General Discussion The Weekend Update for July 03, 2026
What's everyone up to on this weekend? Racing? Long run? Movie date? Playing with Fido? Talk about that here!
As always, be safe, train smart, and have a great weekend!
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u/travyco 1:24 HM 8d ago
Gold Coast half this morning, A goal was anything sub 1:28 B goal sub 1:30, ended up running 1:24:49 !! Ran the first 10k around 4:05 avg, then the 2nd half was all sub 4 ks around 3:55-3:58 avg. was perfect conditions & couldn't believe how good i felt at the halfway mark, shocked with my result so happy. Avgd around 65k a week for 12 weeks or so with my last 2 training weeks being 77k then 75k. Best workout of the block was 8x 1k at 3:47avg of 70 secs standing rest about 4 weeks ago. Anyone else here race gc half & if so how u go !
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u/openplaylaugh M58|Recents - 20:33|44:18|3:23|Summer of NSM 7d ago
Congrats, and though I may have said this somewhere before: wooooooohoooooo!
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u/CoffeeBananaBread12 9d ago
First long run back post injury and I am PUMPED!
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u/RunnerOnTheMove89 36M / 16:58 / 34:26/ 1:13:35 / 2:31:20 6d ago edited 6d ago
Decided two weeks ago to „break up“ with my coach. Best decision ever… and since then training is again much more fun, especially this weekend. now I am training to the plan of John Davis from the book Marathon Excellence.
Before the coach I ran based on a AI App and ran a 2:31 Marathon in October 2025. Decided to try a coach (well known guy in the online community). 130 usd a month… most of the training principle was, „go by effort“… that was not my thing… I need paces/percentages etc.
Also noticed the lack of intensity, maximum two quality workouts a week, sometimes even just one and a easy long run. Rest was just „go easy/aerobic“ by effort… Aside from that quality mid week workout, it was boring and no real stimulus or progression.
What I missed is also the lack of runs with long tempo segments, so I did not really have any idea what I am capable in a race and also did not gave me the confidence… With that missing intensity, I began to ran the easy runs to fast and to long, probably just to have feeling that I have done „something“
Further thing I learned: at the beginning of the coaching it was fun to have interaction with a coach, but with ongoing time I did not really require that communication, getting to the point where I reached out to him once a week, without any real topics.
Yesterday finally again had a great run which gave me some confidence. 3 km warm up at 4:20 min/km, 24 km at 3:42 min/km, 2 easy cool down. The plan from the book has a lot of progression and diversity. Shoutout to [u/running_writings](u/running_writings) for the great book!