So for my last two races, I made my own plan. I found the one that fit me the best and made it fit my life. I settled for a 10-week plan that I found on Pinterest. I skipped most of my weekday runs and focused on the long runs. I thought that was what mattered. I'm also a firm believer in using intervals. It took a while but I found what worked for me, 2 minutes running and 1 minute walking, this allowed me to run the best.
This time around I'm taking a whole new approach. One night sitting on my couch I decided to look up fitness apps. I stumbled across one called Gipis and I downloaded it. I went through the prompts and it asked what my last timed run was and what my new goal is. It made a detailed plan from that day until the day of my half marathon. You get to choose the four days you want to run every week. I got to select Easier, Recommended, or Harder. By accident I chose harder but decided to stick with it (you can change it). According to the app my new half marathon finish time will be 2 hours 11 minutes... that's 17 minutes faster than my last half. I thought why not give it a shot. The first month is running... slow, 13:30 minute per mile pace. I physically can't seem to fun that slow, I tried. I'm also supposed to be running the whole time allotted which is new for me.
First week down. 35 minutes, 45 minutes, and two 15 minute runs. Ran straight through every run, which is something I have not done in a while, since I'm such an interval girl. The runs were nice, too! I can't get the app to work when I actually run, that's my goal this upcoming week. I just manually input all my information from my Garmin. I rely on that watch, but when the runs start to vary in speed at different intervals I would like the app to tell me what to do. This plan is a trial and error. I'll have no problem returning to my old plan when there are ten weeks left until race day if I don't like how Gipis is going.
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