Just finished my first week of the marathon training program that Nike Run Club offers. I wanted something structured and easy: I like having someone/thing just tell me what to do and I do it. But I don’t care to track my runs with that app. it’s going well I guess. Working on my zone 2 on my recovery runs while also just kinda ignoring my HR on some other runs.
Anyway, what was ur training experience like? How did u feel, was it easy or hard? Did u use an app? Join a Strava club? No one I talk to irl is into running.
I like the NRC plan, but like you don’t particularly care for the app. Nike has the plan in PDF you can follow without needing the app. That’s what I’ve been doing.
Basically it boils down to five runs per week. Two recovery (easy) runs, two speed runs, and one increasingly long long run. It’s a solid plan. Be sure to use the chart in the plan to identify your training paces, you’ll use those when doing speed runs.
I personally don’t like the social aspect of Strava, so I feed everything into Runalyse. The analysis is really good and no social aspect.