Here I am again with my weekly update on the plan updates. After adding the 5 & 10k support plans last week it was time to add those plans for goals from 15k up to a half marathon. And as expected/hoped, we received an update on Friday that allows us to work on recovery plans. So this weekend I designed the post-marathon recovery plans!
I already wrote about the importance of these new, adjusted, support plans last week. Because this is such a huge improvement to our app, I, of course, want to have new support plan in the app for every goal distance. This week I implemented them for goal distances between 15k and a half marathon.
If only it were that easy to say: “I take the support plans of the 10km and increase the volume +x% each session or increase the reps of an interval session.”. Yes, the job would be done very quickly. But it wouldn’t get a ‘guaranteed quality’ stamp…
So every training week was reworked to get a balanced build-up towards the specific goal plan. Sometimes I dare to worry a bit too long about a (rather) small adjustment: why do I increase the LSD in week x but not the interval reps? And why am I adjusting the interval distances for performance level x or y, but not for z? That ‘worrying’ is to your advantage: we don’t take it lightly, those adjustments.
So do you have a race coming up that is between 15k and a half marathon? And is that race more than 10 weeks away? Then it pays to reset the goal and enjoy that improved support plan.
Finally we can also add recovery plan in the app! Another giant step forward.
Because recovery plans are very important in several ways:
As promised, I first designed the marathon recovery plans. These are VIP (Very Important Plans), because most mistakes can be made after sustaining such a high training & race load. And those mistakes can reverberate for a long time in life and limb.
And so I designed 10 recovery plans, where your match is based on performance level and training days.
Again, if you’ve now scheduled a marathon race, you’ll need to reset that goal to generate the recovery plan. From now on, we will link that recovery plan to every generated marathon training plan. You’re of course not obliged to follow that recovery plan, but we offer it and stand behind it 100%. So be wise.
May I also point out that we chose to make this a free feature? The future of Trenara depends on the number of subscribers. So the easiest way was to put that extra service, because it really is, behind a Peak or Peak Pro subscription. We deliberately do not do that, in the hope of convincing more people to take out a subscription thanks to a elaborated free version.
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Hi,
sounds great. I am about to run my 10 km today and thought I should take a break for a week after that. But a recovery break sounds better. So where do I find the plan?