I am being coached this month by Daniel Bretscher from Indiana. I saw a opportunity on his blog for a free month of coaching and I thought it would be good for the both of us. I told him I wouldn't be able to afford to actually get coached but I think he is looking to refine his long distance coaching (seems like he does a ton of cool stuff for local people) and he hit a training lull so it seemed fun. Things are going good except for the pool thing. I may change things up a bit from prescribed this week bc of the race on Sat. He had Fri off which just doesn't work for me personally so no fault of his at all. I am also going to up the swimming since I have only been in the pool something like 10 times since early June. Just trying to get more times in the pool with easy efforts between workouts.
The best thing I have gotten out of coaching so far is it is nice just having someone to report to and then actually doing workouts instead of just miles.
I'll be interested to see how it works out with Daniel Bretscher! He's a stud, tempted to try out the free coaching deal too, but I'm training for an early December marathon and know what I need to do the rest of the month...
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