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I had a great question from a fellow plant-based runner come into my inbox asking the ever-important question.... This is a great question because there are so many various ways you can answer the question and act upon the answer. If we're trending towards proper exertion levels, runs are going generally well, and you're reaching workout goals - you're likely making smart training choices and at a lower risk of overtraining & injury. It varies runner to runner, but I'll sometimes have people who are not training for marathons alternate between a long tempo run and an actual long run each week.

Coach Kyle explains that if you want to improve your ability to make smart training choices, ask yourself what you would suggest if you were a runner you were coaching. Coach Kyle explains that if you want to improve your ability to make smart training choices, ask yourself what you would suggest if you were a runner you were coaching. I'm laced up on the day I took that above photo was to the coffee shop to do some run coaching. As hard as it is to consider skipped a run for the next day Sunday, it was made harder because I had made plans to run it with a lady I coach.

If I would have done 6:30's going uphill into the wind I probably would not have been able to close the final two at 6:30's or would have had to work damn hard to do it. I told another client recently that the goal is often to do as little run training as necessary (to reduce risk of overuse) to still reach our running goals. If 30 miles per week will be enough, do that and use the extra time and energy to do strength work, drills, etc. I'd rather see an athlete run on the slower end for all of the prescribed distance repeats or tempo run and feel GREAT for the entire duration....feel like they could run 1-2 more miles or repeats without expiring because they paced properly with stamina left in the bank.

I think they often feel that if things are going well, feedback is less important because...things are going well! But I still like to hear that for confirmation 🙂 When I have a new client join I always send them a welcome email to chat about communication and the check-ins. Check-ins will be taken care of via an end of week survey and if you have any other questions over the course of the week you're most encouraged to email them to me unless they need to be answered asap, then text/skype/whatsapp/DM 🙂 Please note that I rarely answer unplanned calls, emails, or messages after 5pm when my wife gets home from school. But please, please, please know that I cannot help you if I don't hear back from you, you don't check in at least twice monthly (even to let me know things are going awesome!)