Sep 19, 2026 · 45 min · 13 segments
We all have blind spots with our training. Here’s how to find yours and remedy them!
So the very first thing that happens on, like, 90-plus percent of either new coaching calls or consult calls is I ask to take a look at the work they've been doing.
They send over in some format all the training they've been doing for at least the past six weeks, but I-- when it's a consult, I'll look at the whole training block or a whole year.
And from the outside, it's really easy to pick up the immediate holes in the training.
So as I'm scrolling through, most people are, are pattern-based, and you can just look down and they kinda have columns, like Saturday is long run, Tuesday is speed session, or whatever it's going to be.
A lotta times it gets moved around, but you can see if you have a practiced eye at this kinda thing, which fortunately this is all I've done for the last decade or two is stare at training plans, so it's pretty easy to pick out what's missing.
And in a holistic, well-rounded training plan, there's always going to be an overall training volume that you're looking at at the end of each week.
There's going to be some sort of speed work, some sort of stamina work, some sort of endurance work, and just an overall emphasis on building aerobic and anaerobic capacity.
So when I just look at the aerobic and anaerobic side of the training plans, something's always missing.
It's really, really difficult to hit all things at once, and usually we have some sort of bias or habits in our training that leaves some stones completely unturned, and most often it's speed work.
So the most common thing I see with people's training plans is they simply aren't addressing high-end work, and it's pretty easy to see why people don't.
I'm not looking at 5K pace, at mile race pace, at-- I'm not doing my, my mechanical speed work." And so as a result, it's just not present.
It's not, like, this Earth-shattering thing, just something I believe about it.
I mean, this, this applies to everything in life, but if you add a show or a movie to your Netflix queue, uh, to your watchlist, to your Watch Later, and you bypass it more than once, you are exponentially less likely to ever watch it.
And this is-- I have movies sitting in my watch list that have been there for years, and they come and go from Netflix, and every time they're back on there, they pop back into the list and I still haven't watched them years later because once you start pushing something to the side, you stop seeing it.
It can be right there in plain sight, but if you ignore it more than once, you develop an actual blind spot for it.
So the very first thing that happens on, like, 90-plus percent of either new coaching calls or consult calls is I ask to take a look at the work they've been doing.
They send over in some format all the training they've been doing for at least the past six weeks, but I-- when it's a consult, I'll look at the whole training block or a whole year.
And from the outside, it's really easy to pick up the immediate holes in the training.
So as I'm scrolling through, most people are, are pattern-based, and you can just look down and they kinda have columns, like Saturday is long run, Tuesday is speed session, or whatever it's going to be.
A lotta times it gets moved around, but you can see if you have a practiced eye at this kinda thing, which fortunately this is all I've done for the last decade or two is stare at training plans, so it's pretty easy to pick out what's missing.
And in a holistic, well-rounded training plan, there's always going to be an overall training volume that you're looking at at the end of each week.
There's going to be some sort of speed work, some sort of stamina work, some sort of endurance work, and just an overall emphasis on building aerobic and anaerobic capacity.
So when I just look at the aerobic and anaerobic side of the training plans, something's always missing.
It's really, really difficult to hit all things at once, and usually we have some sort of bias or habits in our training that leaves some stones completely unturned, and most often it's speed work.
So the most common thing I see with people's training plans is they simply aren't addressing high-end work, and it's pretty easy to see why people don't.
I'm not looking at 5K pace, at mile race pace, at-- I'm not doing my, my mechanical speed work." And so as a result, it's just not present.
It's not, like, this Earth-shattering thing, just something I believe about it.
I mean, this, this applies to everything in life, but if you add a show or a movie to your Netflix queue, uh, to your watchlist, to your Watch Later, and you bypass it more than once, you are exponentially less likely to ever watch it.
And this is-- I have movies sitting in my watch list that have been there for years, and they come and go from Netflix, and every time they're back on there, they pop back into the list and I still haven't watched them years later because once you start pushing something to the side, you stop seeing it.
It can be right there in plain sight, but if you ignore it more than once, you develop an actual blind spot for it.
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