Your Running Plan Is Useless If It Can’t Do This

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of having a flexible running plan that adapts to real-life challenges rather than just following a rigid schedule.

Send us Fan Mail Download the MaxMile app https://gomaxmile.com/ Most running plans look great on day one. Then real life happens. You miss a session. Work gets busy. Your long run goes badly. You pick up a niggle. You race harder than planned. And the plan just carries on like nothing happened. That’s the problem. In this video, I explain why a good running plan isn’t just a list of workouts… it’s a decision-making system. I’ll show you what your training plan actually needs to do if you wa...

People in this episode

Host: Nick Hancock

Topics covered

• running plans
• decision-making system
• training
• workouts
• real life challenges

Keywords

• running plan
• training
• workouts
• decision-making
• real life
• fitness
• health

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Organizations: MaxMile

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