Check-in & January mileage challenge

[blnchflr]

How goes it?


January mileage challenge - post updated mileage in the comments:

cadenzamuse: 20 miles. Status: 2 mile = 10 %
ell: 100 miles. Status: 46.1 miles = 46.1 %
gnomad: ??? miles. Status: 11.1 miles = ??? %
ilanarama: 200 miles. Status: 89 miles = 44,5 %
nanila: 20 km. Status: 4 km = 20 %
semielliptical: 40 miles. Status: 15 miles = 37,5 %
silveraspen: 40 miles. Status: 13.5 miles = 33.6 %
blnchflr: 50 km. Status: 31.3 km = 62.6 %
temve: 100 miles. Status: 46.1 miles = 46.1 %

Comments

[gnomad]

I, who is not playing but likes to feel included, am at 11.1 coach approved miles. Of how many is unknown. I'm only scheduled to run once this week (recovery week) too.

I gotta say, though, I'm liking this coaching business. The workouts come and I just...do them. No thinking, no wondering what it's doing, no planning. I've not missed a day yet.

I remain less certain about how I feel about my coach's motivational skills. There have been a couple times where she's been less than helpful and basically told me to suck it up. And, you know, suck it up is totally sometimes the correct response but sometimes I need something more. Dunno. We're only going into our 4th week together, so we'll see how it goes.

[blnchflr]

I've added you, for extra feelings of inclusions :)

How often do you see your coach? I'll be interested in how the motivation pans out in the long run!

[gnomad]

We've only met in person once. She lives a city over from me and so all our interaction is online through my training software (trainingpeaks) or email (every 1-2 days). I've yet to text her, but I could do that too if I wanted. She has a bunch of athletes in my area though, so she was thinking of starting up a monthly in person session, like a swim or a track session.

[ilanarama]

I assume this must be a triathlon coach? Because running only once in a week sounds rather minimal even for a recovery week, but presumably you're doing other stuff.

[gnomad]

Oh! Yes! Sorry, I've got about 6-7 workouts a week plus yoga crap. Running is usually 2 of the workouts & this week it's just the one.

I've warned her that I am terrible at multi-workout days and I was so untrained when we started last month that there was really no need to do multiple workouts, but I am interested to see if she ends up going that route in the lead up to June. One of the reasons I got coach was that I couldn't find a half Ironman training plan that didn't have me working out twice a day 3-4 times a week and I'm just really terrible at sustaining that, both from a motivational perspective as well as a physical.

[blnchflr]

Lol, yoga crap.

I'm too lazy to do core exercises, but after a friend was telling me about it, I got it into my head to try and do the yoga planking (not the planking meme). I'm maybe trying to get up to five minutes - am at 2.5 mins on straight arms, 2 mins on forearms (which I find harder).