I’ve been running for two years and I love a structured training plan from an app, as it keeps me motivated. However, I have tried humango (I also swim/bike) and garmin training plans and even with having data from my previous runs, they always make me go too fast and too far. For example, I’m trying a garmin 10k plan and told it I ran 1-8 km/week before starting, and it has me doing 12k first week, 18k second week and the third week starts with a 12k long run! This is when I set my goal date in october, so plenty of time to build up slow. I have had trouble with shin splints in the past and try to keep to the 10% rule (even 5% when I do other sports) but this means I cannot follow these training plans. A lot of training plans for 10k also require 4 runs a week, while I cannot do more than 3 without feeling like I’m pushing myself to hard. Does anyone know a nice training plan or app that can link to a sports watch and doesn’t go overboard on distance?
If you’re at a sub-10k week and still having issues i would probably start with a C25K program and probably start doing some strength training alongside of that. If the C25K is still too much, just walk and do strength training until you can manage it.
So with sub-10k weeks I don’t have issues and I have done a 10k race this year already. My problem is that I want to follow a plan for a slightly faster 10k but all the plans go way to high in distance. I hope to build up to 20-30k weeks and have done 16k weeks before.