10 Mile Run - Now I'm in Trouble with Coach!
So the question is this: Why do I work with a coach if I'm not going to do what he says?! I know how important it is to be coachable. Why then, when my coach said to run for 1 hour and 45 minutes, did I run 2 hours and 50 minutes?
Why did I run so long? I'm starting to feel no confidence about my ability to finish the half marathon in four weeks. FOUR WEEKS! I know that a lot of people train to 10 miles before doing a half. I figured if I could do 10 miles, then I'd have tons of confidence going into the half marathon. And, I really thought I could do it. I was wrong.
The first six miles were fun (which was nice because that's a 10K). Miles 7 and 8 were not fun. Miles 9 and 10 were ridiculously painful. My calves were screaming and I couldn't focus. I could hear my Garmin watch alarming that my cadence was too low, I'd speed up for 10 seconds and then be slow again. While running, I kept thinking, "Is this pain ok?" I had just read an article by a person who said they had made peace with pain. Was this the pain that I was supposed to become friends with - or was this pain that I should pay attention to and stop running? How do you tell?
My coach is so nice. However, I knew that he was not happy when he wrote, "Sue!!!!" with four explanation marks at the beginning of his email. I felt so guilty! And felt even more guilty when I read an article called, Eight Reasons Your Coach Hates You. Doing extra mileage / workouts was number six!
I did the next week's training exactly as written and did a LOT of thinking about why I did the 10 miles. The reason what that I didn't have enough confidence in my training plan. Everything that I had read said to increase the mileage by 10% each week. We weren't doing that. I didn't have the foggiest idea what we were doing. It all just seemed chaotic to me. So . . . I asked my coach if we could talk and I asked him to help me learn his training methodology. He was terrific and took the time to share his thinking with me. He said
Why did I run so long? I'm starting to feel no confidence about my ability to finish the half marathon in four weeks. FOUR WEEKS! I know that a lot of people train to 10 miles before doing a half. I figured if I could do 10 miles, then I'd have tons of confidence going into the half marathon. And, I really thought I could do it. I was wrong.
The first six miles were fun (which was nice because that's a 10K). Miles 7 and 8 were not fun. Miles 9 and 10 were ridiculously painful. My calves were screaming and I couldn't focus. I could hear my Garmin watch alarming that my cadence was too low, I'd speed up for 10 seconds and then be slow again. While running, I kept thinking, "Is this pain ok?" I had just read an article by a person who said they had made peace with pain. Was this the pain that I was supposed to become friends with - or was this pain that I should pay attention to and stop running? How do you tell?
My coach is so nice. However, I knew that he was not happy when he wrote, "Sue!!!!" with four explanation marks at the beginning of his email. I felt so guilty! And felt even more guilty when I read an article called, Eight Reasons Your Coach Hates You. Doing extra mileage / workouts was number six!
I did the next week's training exactly as written and did a LOT of thinking about why I did the 10 miles. The reason what that I didn't have enough confidence in my training plan. Everything that I had read said to increase the mileage by 10% each week. We weren't doing that. I didn't have the foggiest idea what we were doing. It all just seemed chaotic to me. So . . . I asked my coach if we could talk and I asked him to help me learn his training methodology. He was terrific and took the time to share his thinking with me. He said
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