The Spring 2022 Half Marathon: FAST Training Program is a 10-week program, meeting two times a week, and is designed to help runners meet a new performance goal or get out of a training rut. This program will educate on endurance training principles, hydration and nutrition techniques, body awareness, pacing, and running autonomy. This Spring 2022 season will be geared towards The Indy Mini. Due to the current situation, there is the possibility that this race could be postponed, canceled, or transitioned into a virtual experience.
Important Dates:
- Season Starts: Tuesday, March 1, 2022, at 6:30 pm
- Season Logistics: Tuesdays at 6:30 PM and Saturdays at 8:00 AM at Fleet Feet Fort Wayne
- Goal Race: Indy Mini on May 7, 2022
What to expect at Weeknight Workouts:
The focus of the weeknight workouts is to work on our speed and power when running. Whether you’re looking to finish your first distance race or your fastest distance race - building a speed workout into your training is important. You work different muscle groups (fast twitch vs. slow twitch muscles), build endurance in your legs and lungs, and it helps keep our workouts from getting stale. We’ll cover a variety of workouts such as Speed Repeats, Hill Repeats, Fartleks (Swedish for ‘speed play’), tempo runs, etc. We focus on pace and effort during these workouts. Below is an example workout:
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Welcome/Announcements/Find your pace groups
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10 min Warmup Easy Jogging
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Track Ladder workout: 400m hard effort/jog 200m recovery + 800m hard effort/jog 400m recovery + 1200m hard effort/jog 400m recovery + 800m hard effort/jog 400m recovery + 400m hard effort
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10 min Cooldown easy jogging
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Optional Cooldown stretching/core with your group
- Overall, you’ll have done ~3 miles of speed work, but with recovery included in the workout.
What to expect at Saturday Long Runs:
The Saturday Long run focus is on time on your feet. We use the long run to build up our endurance so that we can finish our distance races healthy and happy! Overall, these long runs should be at a very easy pace. We don’t want to race through the long runs because it will ultimately come to us feeling like we’ve ‘raced’ every weekend - our bodies will be tired and it increases the likelihood of injury. You can expect your Mentors to lead the way and help set the pace. These long runs are fully supported with a Key Drop at the store, water stops on the course, turn-by-turn directions, and access to your Coach for questions, advice, etc.
Pace Groups:
This group is intended for intermediate to advanced runners looking to improve their speed, there will not be pace groups below 13:00 min. If you're looking to run/walk a half marathon check out our Half Marathon: FINISH program. Your coach will help give you suggested training paces once in your group! A general breakdown of our groups are as follows:
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8:00 - 9:00
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9:00 - 10:00 training pace
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10:00 - 11:00 training pace
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11:00 - 12:00 training pace
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12:00 - 13:00 training pace
We recommend coming into the training to be able to run 7 Miles.
What is included in the program?
- Access to expert coaching and encouraging mentors
- A training plan that also includes workouts for the days you do not have a group workout
- Info sessions including but not limited to good form, foam rolling, nutrition, etc.
- Access to a closed Facebook group to interact with the other participants and coaches
- Special store discounts just for Fleet Feet Running Club members
- A Fleet Feet Running Club performance shirt
Have questions? Reach out to Sara, our training program coordinator, at saralynnmill@gmail.com
Ready to join us? Register.
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