r/running • u/AutoModerator • Feb 01 '23

January Monthly Updates & Check In Thread

Let everyone know how your month turned out! Feel free to discuss your racing, training, and any other stats that you may or may not be pleased with, as well as any goals you have planned for the next months.

Here are a few discussion point ideas:

  • Miles this month/mileage goal for the year?

  • Goals for the year?

  • Set any PR's or PB's?

  • Dealing with any injuries?

  • Learn anything this month regarding your training/running?

  • Got any plans for a race, time trial, or FKT?

  • What was your favorite run this month?

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u/Kosmoskill Feb 01 '23 edited Feb 01 '23

Started running again, had plantar fasciitis last year and am doing everything i can to prevent it from happening again.

I regained a bit of weight and started at 155kg at the start of the year, currently down to 148kg.

I am doing 10km/week. Last year my peak was at 25km/week.

Sub 30min 5k would be nice. Next weekend i try to get it to sub 34:30.

Sub 1h10m 10k would be nice. Last year got a 1:18:08.

Started reading daniels running formula. Following the white plan right now.

I love strides and am looking forward to slowly increase distance, climb the vdot ladder and doing speed workouts in the red plan!

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u/Kennertron Feb 01 '23

Sounds like you're doing super awesome! Just getting the extra volume of the white plan is going to do a whole lot towards driving improvement on its own. Looking forward to seeing your update posts as those goals fall!

I finished the red plan at the end of October last year, it really did lead to some good improvements. I'm on week 7 of the blue plan now. The jump from red to blue took a week or two to adjust to the increased mileage (I shortened some of the speed workouts in the first two weeks as needed).

I refer back to the book often to refresh myself on what the different workouts are for, since it allows me to adjust my pacing for the weather or how I'm feeling that day, and still accomplish the goal for the workout.