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I was never aware of this channel until just now. At least I don't remember seeing it. Before I watch, these questions: 1. Are you willing to run in the outside lanes of a track? 2. Are you willing to run clockwise on a track? These may be answered by watching, which I very well may do.

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Nice video. Picked up some nice ideas. I love planning but probably spend far too much time overthinking it. Will you do any tune up races? And what would your weekly mileage roughly be.

Will be great to semi-follow along. I will be entering the Nice HM on 27th April which is in 24 weeks, so a while a way but it will be deep winter where I live (French Alps) so training can be more difficult. Just done a Nice 20km in 1:58 but I am hoping for say 1:50 for HM but I have no idea what is a reasonable target. My Garmin currently says 2:01:25. Best of luck. PS Still don’t understand why you channel has only 4.3K subs.

30+kms long runs arent necessary, id lower it to 90mins but add more runs between 60min and 90mins, the double easy days are a good idea, if you double 2x a week like 70min AM and 40min PM with a 90min (max long run) you get 3 runs a week over 60mins, for half marathon i would use them all the way through, double thresholds are popular now but i find you are adding too much, id rather see you do a progression to hit 4x2km with 2min rc on the track for proper even splits (315/km or 39s 200m)... so you can have a chance to relax at 320-325 pace, the double threshold stuff during off season is alright, but not during a build up, 10 weeks is a good amount of time to prep, you have a good idea of what you are doing... also you are right, taper doesnt have to be as long you wont be running on fat fuel running a 70min race. Just my 2cents. Good luck

Great plan, keep it going!

Will you continue to strength train through this plan? Interested to know how you will schedule strength, particularly in the block with double days Tuesday and Thursday

I partially tore my calf 6 weeks ago and haven't run since then. Your videos got me excited to start running again! Gonna start w/ a little test run tomorrow AM :)

Best of luck!!

I think you are already doing it but just keep up your core work. Great work.

I suppose by Double threshold you aim for low-threshhold? Working around threshhold is too hard, says our former legend runner Ingrid Kristiansen. She recommend 8-12 K sessions 3-4 beats below your threshold. That would slowly increase your threshold-pace!

I like this. Keep the speed work a priority and the longer stuff fits in. I’d race a 5k or track solo early January as a test. I wish you well.

Decent plan, very nice! In your miles period I think I would run the longruns at a steady pace with HR to the higher end of zone 2 to increase aerobic capacity and running efficiency. I like steady longruns a lot and challenge myself to get as close to marathon pace as possible on average while keeping HR in zone 2.

Hey brother! I’m going to be at Houston as well, I’ll be doing the marathon tho

Like the alternating long run stimulus. I personally like bookend intervals, think 5 x 14mins with (3mins to eventually 90sec AR) where that 14mins is broken up into 2mins 5k, 10mins HM, 2mins 5k. With gradually reducing active recovery between them as you keep repeating the workout over the weeks. You basically LT2 dance during the interval, and it soon makes goal HM seem much easier. And allows you to operate closer to LT2 for extended periods and push LT2 higher. V02max is overrated, without a high percentage of Max HR for your LT2 it's speed you can't effectively utilize.

Great plan; I’ll be running a half in January to prepare my next year races. Hope you can be ready to break 2:30 my friend.

Some very interesting ideas in there. I like the alternation of the long run and the progressive run, and also the wildcard Saturday sounds like a smart thing to include.

I have my favourite workout suggestion! Adapted version of a popular marathon session, that our club runner named Ilpo runs a lot. Therefore we call it: Ilpo Express. 🚂 1. Run - 5 km 2. Recover - 1 km 3. Run - 4 km 4. Recover - 1 km 5. Run - 3 km 6. Recover - 1 km 7. Run - 2 km 8. Recover - 1 km 9. Run - 1 km. Alternates between running and floats, with the majority of the running intervals at around half marathon pace up to: whatever is left in the tank. 😅You mastered the workout if the average pace is about your target half marathon pace. 😎

I love that your training philosophy, embraces Mondays for rest days (as I do.) But I wonder, is there an element where you introduce a new stress to your body, after a few repetitive weeks? Will you do that in the core sessions?

Exciting mate! Cant beat writing out a physical plan on a piece of cardboard with a pen and ruler, proper planning that!! Good luck with the double T work, hope it goes well... i'll be following

If I were you I’d do a few sessions at 10k pace, 6 x mile, 10 x 1k… I’d even include a session or two @5k pace, basically the 10k paced workouts are your speed work for the half.

Love the channel...I'm 52 and looking to hit big goals too. What are those amazing glasses you are using with paces, HR, etc? Thx!

Looks like a solid plan. Those double days would murder me.

Looking forward to following along. Most content is geared towards the marathon but everyone actually runs halves!!

Great workouts, high quality video with the drone and the digital data + good music !

"Autumn of Speed". Love it.

You're blistering fast! Did my Sunday longrun here in Sweden (got a house here in rural Sweden) in shorts and 10-12C, so no early snow this year😅. A 1/2 mara next Sunday, so no rest for the wicked🤪. Did 75 km the week after Frankfurt, not bad...or maybe it was? Btw: nice trails🤩

The stationary bike is an amazing tool, if you can stomach it. Really frees up the pounding from the legs if you traditionally need rest days. But can still do all the LT1/2 work. As for HARD short intervals. Throw on the Stryd pod, and do a set on a flat, and then do another set on fairly tame uphill. And then check the Impact Loading Rate afterwards... I was doing 1k to 1.6k uphill at CP with a 400-600m easy downhill jog recovery, thanks to an awesome horseshoe loop. For longer efforts, doing these at Marathon power would be a decent starting point while you adapt. As I go into my Boston block, it's all gonna be about uphill/downhill power. But I will caution you about trying to hold power targets on sustained downhills. Power doesn't translate perfectly downhill. So you can easily overdo it and pound the legs to mush. If I can hold 5-10% less power on the downhill it seems like a decent and safe alternative. Again, check the impact loading rate for the same power on the flats, vs the same power on the uphill and downhill...it's very eye opening about the balance of stimulus vs risk. I've got to the point where I simply need to get faster, but after a calf tear in the spring of 2022 I've been shying away from anything faster than over/under LT2 intervals. But post Chicago recovery, with finally incorporating strength training again, my calf is a non-issue. So here's hoping I can get back to hitting the maximal aerobic domain, maybe even into VO2 max. Something longer than simple strides which is all neuromuscular recruitment.

Hitting some lovely paces! I'd like to try some of those workouts if my knee ever gets better again.

Superb

I love that you’re doing hills session and wearing “Indian Hills” shirt 😂👍

Icy conditions make it kind of dangerous! Otherwise, I’m a cold runner - do so much better in the cold than heat or humidity!

I was looking forward to this!

If you're a marathon runner the shoe that isn't given enough credit is the adidas prime x strung 2. Not as versatile as a superblast 2 but for specific goal pace workouts it's unbeatable. Zero foot fatigue and just bounce a long even when tired above 18 plus miles. I'm actually surprised more people don't race it.

Lots and lots of Saucony Kinvara's. Pretty much the perfect daily trainer for me and I can get around 400 miles out of them. Can usually pick up last year's model for $60-$70.

How many kms/miles do you think you will get out of the On Cloudsurfer?

Kiprun KD900. I just wanted to try them out without having much hope. But they've become my absolute favorite shoes. They do everything pretty well. Super light and super fast. After 500 km they feel like they did on the first day. I'll buy them again.

The Cloudsurfer also has a trail version which looks interesting for the winter! Swiper the cat really wants to be a star in one of your videos!!! :))

New Balance Fuelcell Propel V5. For me as good as the novablast, which I love, and ridiculously cheap. The kind of shoes you can take on vacation and use for everything.

I bought it today and in 2 hours I'm watching your video. And what did I find out? Well, the shoes will be great.. thanks and many happy miles... (I'll give info when I'm satisfied)

I bought 2 pair of NovaBlast V3 as part of my spring marathon block, which also got me through my fall marathon block as well. I have over 1200km in these 2 pairs and they still have life left in them, but you can clearly see the wear in the mid/forefoot around the trampoline section now. Planning to wait for Black Friday and swing a pair of Peg Plus, and Invincible V3 to help get me through the boston block. Add in my SuperBlast V2, Tempo Next%, and AF VX. I'm good till Boston. Still unsure what the fall will be...torn between P’tit Train du Nord Marathon in Oct or just making the entire summer about going sub 90mins at the half at my local half marathon I run every year towards the end of Sept.

ASICS Noosa Tri 15 - so comfortable and surprisingly nimble👍 They’ve released the 16 so you can grab a bargain on the 15 which is essentially the same!

My shoe rotation. Long run: New balance 1080 V13 Shorter runs: On Cloud surfer Intervals: Saucony Speed 4 Race day: Saucony Pro 3

I ran most of my marathons in the older adios before the introduction of the super shoes. Brought me to low 2.50's a few times. I've also ran my half marathon pb in the old streakflys. Love them, light and felt barely there.

Streakfly is pretty good, but the durability is not that great. At 50km, the midsole glue is separating laterally.😢

SuperBlast 2 is definitely the best long run shoe. Can’t rate it high enough & get at least 1,000ks out of it

Adidas Boston 12 - great shoe and great value. Weirdly preferred them to the Takumi Sen 10 for hard sessions and also handle other paces well. Adidas Pro 3 for sessions too, so unbelievably durable. New Balance More v4/v5. Plush and soak up miles. I went through 4 pairs of the v4, just love them. I'm a sucker for some decent stack height!

Intro was 😂

Huge Adios fan here - the 8s are great and have done a variety of runs in them but mainly for speedier stuff and treadmill (and fave gym shoe!) Looking forward to the 9. Didn't like iterations 5, 6 & 7 - adidas ruined the Adios with their pants Lightstrike foam. The versions prior, the 3 in particular, was great for everything - used them for all races.

I enjoyed Streakfly! Such great show for tempo and interval sessions!👍