All things training. Mostly advice and tips but maybe questions, general comments, or who knows what else.
It’s summer vacation time! In fact, very soon, I’ll be heading out for some family time on the beach.
But I’m also doing a summer racing season so I don’t have to deal with trying to balance my own racing with my daughter’s racing.
So what should I do?
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I see so many people worrying about that last 1% it takes to be great. Those little things that will make the difference of seconds. I’m not a fan.
Why not? Why not squeeze out every second you can get? What if you come up 3 seconds short of your goal and that extra 1% would have been worth 5 seconds?
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Often, runners see a new idea or think over their training and discover that something is missing. They then want to add it to their training. I recently mentioned avoiding getting caught up in the hype of “Instagram workouts” but what I’m thinking of is something more basic and often not a bad idea.
However, we need to be careful when adding new things.
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I mentioned when posting about watching Instagram workouts that I’d write this week about recording these workouts.
To be honest, I want to say just don’t do it. However, I know there are people who want to do this. I also know there are cases where, if you’re a member of a team, you may not get to decide whether or not you are part of a recording.
…Have you seen workouts on social media and thought “wow, that’s a great workout, I should try it”? Or watched one and thought “I’m not working hard enough”?
I’ve been watching recently how common this occurrence is. From “adult onset” runners who haven’t had the opportunity to have a good coach teach them how to build a training plan to younger runners who haven’t yet learned the lessons to people close to runners who want to see the best for their runners and think the answer is what they see on social media.
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