For our runners who *aren’t* running the NYC Marathon
Your guide to joining Coach + Coffey, no matter your marathon
Hello Team!
We’ve created a Google sheet to let you know how we’re altering training for different fall marathons so everyone can run together. Be prepared…it’s a big ol’ spreadsheet with a lot of Runnerspeak and a Dilbert aesthetic. If you’d rather just get your training week by week, feel free to disregard; from here on out we’ll be referencing smaller marathons in those weekly emails as well.
This spreadsheet assumes you’d like you fall into step with the larger noname and Coach + Coffey programming. That means you’ll be able to slide into noname speed and long runs, and this weekly newsletter will speak to your training experience. If that’s not important to you, you can always follow the Coach + Coffey or The noname Program plan as written!
Please also feel free to make this your own. You can always run a mile or an interval more or less if it means tagging along with teammates. Just make sure you’re doing it out of fun and comradeship rather than ego and force.
One specific note we know we’ll be asked about: you’ll notice that long runs are sometimes written in miles, and sometimes in time (1:30-2:00, most typically). Those time-based runs always carry a built-in option: depending on how your body is adapting to the training, those days are can either be your chance to recover with a shorter, aerobic-paced long run, or your chance to practice marathon and sub-marathon pace in controlled segments. We’ll always detail long run speed options in our weekly email—they’ll be something like 3-8 miles at marathon pace or 8x2:00 at half-marathon pace built into your long run.
Lastly, this is a living document and may change slightly as we notice trends in energy and fitness. No marathon is run in a vacuum, and we’ll always respond to environmental factors as they arise.
LFG!
Coach + Coffey