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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is making this all way too complicated. At your level OP, just find a plan for an event XX weeks out and do that plan. If your A race is too far out, just do the plan twice. That’s it.

All this attempt at fine tuning is a waste of your time. The things holding you back are 1) your cardio engine, and 2) your time experience running. It’s that simple.

As for “speed”-just about everybody after the age of 25 is going to PR in the mile during the build for the longest distance race they train for. [/quote]

OP here. So, counter intuitively I’m sure, I’m actually trying to simplify.

I know everyone is saying follow a plan and I know this is good advice and that plans work but I have kind of a habit of getting too obsessive about things. Having a schedule laid out will lead me to stick to it with absolute military commitment. I’ll never skip a day. And I’ll be totally burned out and overwhelmed by the commitment by the end.

Having a more general overarching thing to work for in any given week (a long run, a mileage goal) theoretically lets me listen to my body, be easy on myself if I need to take a rest day etc. No one is “telling me what to do” so I don’t get sucked down a bad mental rabbit hole.

So I’m not ignoring the “follow a plan” advice because it’s bad advice, I just personally have fallen into unhealthy behaviors when given a schedule like that.[/quote]

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