The wonderful world of training plans for races is a minefield of injuries and disappointing races just waiting for optimistic “just signed up for a race” runners.
As a coach, I have most of my athletes coming to me from having the following experiences with pre-made plans: repeated injuries from the training they were doing, or thinking that they can do better, they just don’t know how to do it. The common denominator, they were using a pre-made, generic plan.
That plan was either recommend to them by a friend who “swore by it” or was even provided to them by the race they signed up for.
To those who have used pre-made plans, and found success. Did you find success because of the plan? Or in spite of the plan?
In this article, we’ll go through the most common issues we see in pre-made plans so that you too can spot them and possible solutions for how to adjust.