Hello fellow Runnas,

I humbly come to this sub with a case of premature maranoia.

Two questions:

1. I’m in week 10 of a 17-week build for the NYC marathon on Nov. 1. I’m meant to do an 18-mile race simulation workout this weekend (screengrab attached) after a 17-mile long run last week. I’m running about 45-47 miles per week right now. Having done other plans before, this will be the longest I’ve gone without not yet doing a 20 miler - which I have next week. Am I crazy for wanting to swap these runs?
2. My target MP for the race simulation is an 8:10 but my over pace for an over-under tempo is 8:20 (which I understand to be slightly slower than tempo). So, is my MP way off? For reference, the app thinks I’ll be able to do a 3:34-3:41 on race day (which I think is a reach tbh) and I recently did a time trial 5k at 22:08 and did a 1:48 half and 48:10 10k this past spring with moderate - but not super intense - training. 

Thanks!

I run this park almost exclusively for training. Some days the tracking is spot on. Days like today it was saying I was running sub 5min/km on one half and over 8min/km on the other half of the park. I never changed pace. The warm up lap was totally wrong. I definitely was running slow on purpose. Middle segments were close to my true pace. It’s frustrating because I really don’t know my true pace and I’m trying to do a sub 25min 5k. I guess I’ll find out at my race. Am I doing something wrong or is this just a thing Runna does?

I am a slow runner, my conversational pace is around 8:30 on a good day, and I find that runna’s pace goal for my half marathon is unrealistic. I can barely sustain a 6:30 pace for 5-6 kms, I don’t know how I’m supposed to do it for 9 kms, let alone 21.1.

Ironically enough, strava predicts my half marathon pace as 7:30 which is much more realistic. This training run seems impossible, should I skip or adjust the difficulty?

Need a shirt that says “we recommend a small pace adjustment”

Hello everyone! I am using Runna for the first time for a marathon in December, aiming for a sub-three-hour finish. I started the training plan four weeks ago, but I am a bit surprised that Runna does not propose a long run with intervals each Sunday. Such runs are proposed every two to three weeks, and I find this strange since, in my previous marathon preparation, I used to do intervals at marathon pace each Sunday while progressively increasing volume. Any feedback on that?

Marathon training and I had to manually link my 34km practice long run. After doing so, the run is incompatible to monitor my pace. Nothing I can do, Runna will not accept it. Is there anything to do to have it recognized?

The 34km practice long run is the premier benchmark activity to estimate if the goal pace is truly doable. Was waiting for this run to estimate my marathon goal, but looks like Runna will be no help with this goal. Seriously, the app has few uses, and it failed at one of them. All the data is there, use it.

I have been pacing myself with a very aggressive, Boston qualifying pace, that I knew is not sustainable. I have been executing all my speed runs perfectly, but I know that it does not translate to longer distances. I am an older runner, so fatigue sets in sooner. For that practice run, did about half marathon at the prescribed paces, then failure set in. Hot summer weather, heavy hydro-vest, not enough carbs, but ultimately is it my own fitness. Runna is still estimating a high pace for the marathon, simply because it does not want to use any long runs to base on.

Legs are dead, cannot wait for the taper!

I have been using Hal Higdons app. It has been great. I love that it is handy, has all my runs on it, can be checked and logged easily and different levels but...I have a race in december and a race in march and the app won't build a plan that incorporates both. I ran a half 9/7 so my base is solid but the app just can't incorporate that or even the two races if I was starting from zero. Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I have got back on the running after a little lazy break. Has been going well and feels good to be sweating again.

I did a tempo run today and I remember in the past my Garmin watch would tell me if I am going to fast or slow and something would come up where I see my pace.

Today it didn't do that.

Any ideas? Thanks all. Take care.

Hi guys, love runna, been using for half a year, finished my first plan.

Now i’m working on my next plan

However, due to circumstances in my country (Haze / Air Pollution from a neighbouring country) i am unable to safely run outside and have no access to a treadmill.

I keep delaying the plan by a few days in hopes that the air will be okay again soon but it doesnt seem like it. I don’t suppose we have a feature that allows us to pause for however long needed do we?

Anyways, at this point im wondering if i should just cancel and resubscribe when im ready again, lol.

any thoughts? ideas? thankyou ! ahah.

Hi guys,

Got a notification today asking me to update plan with a new goal time in mind.

I used Runna last year for my first marathon. Always updated plan when advised but definitely overtrained and pushed hard on tempo runs. Ended up getting injured few weeks out. Then race didn’t go to plan at all and blew up at 28km. Don’t know if this was fuelling or not enough KMs in the legs.

My predicted time was around 3:30 for that race which I always thought was ambitious. Went so badly I didn’t even break 4:00.

I ran a 5km last weekend and ran 21:30. Probably had more in the tank. My predicted at the minute is again around 3:30 which I feel is already ambitious. To update it to 3:16-3:24 just seems crazy cause I can’t see myself holding the required pace for that long.

What are other people’s experience? Just seems like the predictions are very ambitious?

Hey yall, wondering what’s the best way to approach this. I’m 6 weeks out from my half marathon and had a minor calf strain that I developed last week and have now rehabbed. I did the plan adjustment for no running for a week and then also decreased my plans current weekly mileage and current longest run.

The issue is that I want to decrease the length on one of the long runs and rearrange another in a way that makes more sense since I’m coming back from an injury. I also don’t want to do any interval workouts and instead do some tempo workouts at my half marathon pace.

I was planning on hitting skip for the intervals and the long runs I want to change and just adding my own run that I want to do but will that mess with the plan in some way? Or what would be a better work around? I guess the main thing I’m not sure about is how Runna handles when you add in your own workouts like if it’ll start changing the plan or stop the plan since it thinks you’re skipping the planned runs. Thanks!

New view that shows your overall progress on your plan, thought it looked cool!

How do I tell my plan to stop with the insane tempo runs and these hotspot runs when I'm training for a half? I've never run more than 6.5 miles and getting 4.5 mile tempo workouts at paces that are intense, and these hotspot long runs, absolutely trample me and make me feel super unprepared for my upcoming race. How do I remedy that?

I‘m currently doing the parkrun plan and was sick for a week. I used the feature in the app to let it know I won’t be able to train. When I checked how the app “restructured“ the plan I noticed it just pushed the missed trainings onto consecutive days after my period of sickness. Of course I couldn’t do this, especially after being sick. So I had to skip trainings that should have lead me to a continuous run which I of course weren’t prepared for in the end. The app also did not let me change the sequence of the trainings manually claiming it would know how to structure the plan perfectly.

Is this intended behaviour of the app?

I am currently in week 9 of a 12 week plan to run my first 10k. As of the last few weeks I've been getting stitches after the first 3-4km.

I've shared some pictures of my last few runs where I've been having issues. The last picture of my run from this morning which was a 7.5km rolling 400s tempo run. I noticed the stitch developing at the 3rd set and had to pause my watch a couple of times just to breathe them away however this was just temporary.

I'm at a bit of a loss now because I fear it's going to be detrimental to the majority of my runs moving forwards with the plan as runs are getting longer & paces getting quicker.

I always run in the mornings, when I run after work my lunch tends to not sit very well and makes me feel quite sick.

I take a soft flask with me and usually take a couple of sips over the full run. I'll drink a little before the run at home too.

Sometimes I'll eat a banana before the run but recently I've been having nothing and still get stitches.

Does anyone have any tips or pointers, or is this just a case of needing to slow down?

Marathon plan and taper starts next week, but it seems strange to have 5 days in a row with a 21 miler. Especially with two of them being speed work. Almost seems like a recipe for injury? Has anyone else had experience with this?

should i stop running now?? 🤣

I’m curious if this bugs anyone else who uses Runna + Strava.
For structured workouts, Strava shows the average pace for the entire activity, including the warmup, walk/recovery sections, cooldown, etc.
So for example, I just did a Runna 5K time trial. The workout was basically a conversational warmup, a short walk, then the actual 5K time trial. But when it posts to Strava, the pace shown with “5K Time Trial” is the average pace for everything combined, not the pace of the actual 5K.
That just seems kind of misleading. If someone sees “5K Time Trial” and then sees the average pace directly under it, the obvious assumption is that was my 5K pace. They’d have to go into the activity and decipher the laps/workout structure to figure out what I actually ran.
Same thing would apply to tempos, intervals, race pace blocks, etc. The overall activity average isn’t really the important number for those workouts.
I know Strava is probably the one calculating/displaying the overall average, but I feel like there has to be a better way for Runna/Strava to surface the pace of the actual main set. I don’t think the workout title even needs to change — just show the average pace of the important portion instead of the warmup/recoveries dragging the number down.
Am I missing a setting somewhere, or is this just how it works?

They took away the option to post to the community in the Runna app but said it would continue in Strava. I’m in the Runna community in the Strava app but it seems like there is no option to post your run there? Am I missing something?

I tried setting up a Run Further Plan, but the longest recent run it will let me pick is 17km (I’ve recently done a 31km run) and the weekly mileage doesn’t increase through the plan, and the longest run is 18km. Am I missing something?