Run Smart Without Overthinking

Yep.

And so it might be that during the week, if you have to get it in over lunch or after work, that's fine.

And then on the weekend, we do like to practice the early morning because that's what race day is going to be.

And so that repetition of early morning can help with race day in the sense of I've practiced, what's it feel like to get up and what am I going to eat versus, well, I needed a snack in the afternoon before I ran, but this is a little different.

So If you are someone who runs consistently in the evening, it is still worth doing some of those morning runs to get you kind of prepped for race day.

So, Gosha just popped into my head in that with your clients and those who are kind of starting out, or maybe those who have sort of like maybe been doing it for a while, when do you sort of introduce sort of the more sort of the technical side of running? What I'm talking about there is interval training, tempo running.

You know, long runs, you talked about, you know, zone two, that kind of thing.

When do you sort of introduce that sort of thing? And how do you explain it to them? They're thinking, interval things? What's that sort of?

Yeah.

So I would say at least...

For most folks, the first three to six months that you're running is a lot of like your body adapting and kind of figuring out like what's happening, why are you making me do this? Yeah.

Which doesn't mean that we don't do any hard workouts, but probably not a lot because we're just trying to build that consistency.

But during that phase, we might do some hill repeats where I say, hey, find a steep hill and I want you to run really hard up it for 20 seconds.

And that's sort of the definition I'll give at that point.

It's just really hard.

And then once we're ready to start introducing stuff, we usually do it by time and by effort.

And that's by design.

So maybe it's five by one minute at a moderate effort.

And initially, like... what is moderate? They may not know, but that's kind of the goal.

I want them to start feeling out these different intensities because then it starts to give you all the days that are supposed to be easy.

You're like, oh, wait a second.

This feels exactly like when she told me to run moderately hard.

So that means I'm not actually running easy.

And that's usually we'll start it with that kind of a thing because it gives you a chance to get more in tune with your body before we start putting in very specific ranges or paces.

I don't have people think about heart rate For a little while as well.