

Hal gives you detailed daily workouts with distance, duration, and paces. If life changes, Hal will update your plan based upon changes in your schedule, fitness, goals, and even how much training you have been able to complete. Add additional events and Hal will adjust your plan.

Hal personalizes pace based upon your current fitness, whether you can run a 20 min or 50 min 5K. Days you can’t run for special circumstances (vacation or work trip) Hal adapts your plan based upon YOUR LIFE’S SCHEDULE! Choose your key event and Hal will build your plan to get you ready for race day. All of your workouts will give you specific details of how fast and long to run, and you will get daily helpful tips from Hal to help you reach your goals and learn about running. Once you finish your first plan, you can choose your next goal and Hal will create a brand new plan for you. Hal can even adapt your plan around times when you can’t run (vacation) and incorporate additional events that you’ve signed up for. Plus, the plan is always adapting to changes in your schedule, fitness, and goals. Your plan will incorporate the most important workouts on the days you’re able to run. Hal chooses the perfect plan for you based upon your goals and experience, then he crafts your personalized schedule. If I was to do again I would probably use the regular training plan or Higdon plan which has mile requirements.Run With Hal personalizes a training plan based upon your personal running routine, fitness level, and life’s schedule to help you conquer any event from 5K to Marathon or help you get fit through running. With 4 weeks out I'm getting nervous about being able to just complete (which is my goal, not necessarily a target time) the marathon since long runs will start tapering this week. I just did a long run yesterday and only did 16 miles in 3 hours while holding to the heart rate zones. It's simple to follow and I like it because I don't try and overthink my workouts. I felt this might be better for me so I don't overtrain and not allow for sufficient recovery.

So this HR plan doesn't give certain mileage requirements for your runs, just heart rate zones and time in each as dictated by the workout. I've just started running consistently a few years ago with a few 5k races to keep me motivated. I'm 49M and have been doing the intermediate HR based marathon training plan to get ready for my first marathon on April 3rd.
