Project 20 - Week 3 update

Welcome back to Project 20! 🎉 Week 3 is complete, and I’m starting to see a pattern in my training. Five days of Zone 2 running, a speed day, and a long run, plus strength sessions. 💪

This week’s highlights:

• Discovering Zone 2 running
• Adjusting to a structured plan
• The challenge of training solo

Next week looks like a deload or rest week, with more Zone 2 runs and a fun 5k to cap it off! 🏃‍♂️ Stay tuned for updates and insights as I navigate this journey towards a sub 20-minute 5k. Let’s see what Week 4 brings! 🚀

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Project 20 week three done. Here's an update for you. I've started to figure out a pattern. there's 5 days of Zone 2 running, so Zone 2, that's new to me. there's a day of speed. there's a long run. And, add in a couple of strength sessions, and that seems to be the pattern so far. Except I picked ahead and next week's not that. So it looks like I, is the right word for, I, this is all new to me. Deload? Rest week? I don't know. Next week's not that, so far the upside of it, It's all planned for me. I don't have to, I look at tomorrow and that's it. It's all planned. I just got to do it. I don't have to think about where I'm running tomorrow, what I've got to do. Not that I was giving it much thought, but I don't have to do any of that. It's just the next 20 weeks or 17 of them, it's all planned for me. I don't have to give it any thought at all. The downside is that it took me a while to go, ah, I'm not running with people. There's no random, I've turned off all of the notifications in all the, running chats. Cause there's no, ah, there's a group going out and doing a fast five or jump on that. I don't know. There's none of that. There's a long run on Sunday, 15 cases. No, that's not wrong pace, stuff like that. So I'm adjusting, I'm not adjusting to that. I think I've just come to that realization. It's a little bit lonely there's a bit of solidarity when you're, Doing a training plan that's not in line with anyone else's training plan some of that's about how many of the people that I've come, I think broadly you can have run friends and you know we all can run at the same pace but that might be a little faster for some people a little slower for other people but when you're really drilled in on a This is your Zone 2 and you've got to run at that. that's when it starts to, you know, if other people are doing some Zone 2 training, that's where it could be that their Zone 2 is very different to mine. Their Zone 2 might be my Zone 4 or 5 in some cases of the people I know. next week I've peaked ahead, so it looks like 6 of my runs next week are all Zone 2, take it easy. No speed session next week. only one strength session and it looks like there's a 5k go for it one. that'll be fun. I guess that's a bit of, finishing off week four with a bit of a test, a bit of a deload. let's see what happens after that. So anyhow, that's week three update. I've got to get Carl on here and he can help give an update too. we can talk about my three rules and his three rules, but I'm off to Newcastle next week. So it might be after that look out for an update from Newcastle.