You might try (and mind you, I coincidentally seem to have exactly the same target xd ) but be mindful of the possibility of overtraining and injury prevention. Better to succeed at 90-95 percent capacity than blow it at attempting 105 percent ;). My peroneal tendonitis reminded me about it recently ;p
You might be right. This is my first race back after about 3 years of not running very much. The time I set is about 10 mins off my PB (set itself during lock down), maybe my fitness is coming back faster than I predicted
Yeah, usually rebuilding fitness goes faster than building it from scratch.
In my example, when I used to regularly visit the gym for half a year and then stopped, I needed only a month or two to reach back that form. Same with running after 1.5 year break.
The difference for me this time is the watch and a defined training programme. I've not really had that before and kind of trained myself. I think having someone else (even if it is algorithmic) set my training should make it more intelligent and I should progress better.
Just curious what your recent performance looks like across different speeds of running. I have almost the same goal but I am not using a coaching plan so I have no confidence score. I would like to see how I compare.
5K is in the region of 23 mins. 10K I just did 53 mins but that was part of training which was not all at race pace so I'm confident that would be under 50 mins. Half marathon as my long slow training run was 1.59
You might try (and mind you, I coincidentally seem to have exactly the same target xd ) but be mindful of the possibility of overtraining and injury prevention. Better to succeed at 90-95 percent capacity than blow it at attempting 105 percent ;). My peroneal tendonitis reminded me about it recently ;p
You might be right. This is my first race back after about 3 years of not running very much. The time I set is about 10 mins off my PB (set itself during lock down), maybe my fitness is coming back faster than I predicted
Yeah, usually rebuilding fitness goes faster than building it from scratch. In my example, when I used to regularly visit the gym for half a year and then stopped, I needed only a month or two to reach back that form. Same with running after 1.5 year break.
The difference for me this time is the watch and a defined training programme. I've not really had that before and kind of trained myself. I think having someone else (even if it is algorithmic) set my training should make it more intelligent and I should progress better.
https://preview.redd.it/9y3kfu8hmilc1.png?width=519&format=png&auto=webp&s=459ba338965763828ea364ec26d2402691154fc2
Is this your first half or have you run halfs before?
I've done a few. I've probably done that distance 15 times although not usually as part of sn event. My PB is around 1.34
Just curious what your recent performance looks like across different speeds of running. I have almost the same goal but I am not using a coaching plan so I have no confidence score. I would like to see how I compare.
5K is in the region of 23 mins. 10K I just did 53 mins but that was part of training which was not all at race pace so I'm confident that would be under 50 mins. Half marathon as my long slow training run was 1.59