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Two useful doors, depending on where you are.
You have a race goal and want a coach on it.
Apply for 1:1 coaching. Two minutes: the race, your recent training, and the biggest challenge right now. No payment or plan starts from the form. I read every application personally and reply within 24 hours.
You're still naming what feels off.
Read the examples below. They're the kinds of training problems I work on every week, and what I look at first in each.
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Common problems, and where I look first.
You're running more, but not racing faster.
The answer is usually not another workout. The first thing I check is what your easy days are doing, because that's where extra mileage turns into fatigue instead of fitness. If easy pace has been drifting toward race pace, the volume is working against you. Sometimes the fix is the same miles in a different week.
Workouts look fine, but races keep underperforming.
That gap usually has a paper trail. I'd want the last few weeks: how the long runs finished, what fueling looked like around quality work, and whether the workouts were executed or just raced. A race rarely falls apart on race day. It falls apart in the weeks before, and the training log usually shows where.
The plan looks fine, but real life keeps changing it.
A broken week is information, not a failure. The useful question is what to move, what to protect, and what to let go. I look at which sessions actually drive your race and rebuild around those, instead of squeezing seven days of training into four and hoping. The runners who hold a goal through a messy season plan for the mess instead of pretending it won't come.
Something outside the runs is affecting your training.
The log usually shows it before you say it. Gym days landing on tired legs, fueling gaps before quality work, sleep going short, outside stress flattening paces that should feel easy. I read those alongside the running, because the plan only works if your week can absorb it.
If one of these reads like your training, the application is the fastest way to get my eyes on it. If coaching isn't the right move for you yet, I'll say that too. Apply for 1:1 coaching.
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You have seen how I read a training problem.
Now put your own training in front of me. Send the race, your last few weeks, and the one thing you cannot figure out, and I will reply with what I see, usually the first thing I would change. No payment to start.
Not ready yet? Coaching does its best work at the start of a training block. Until then I work through real training problems on X.
Got it. I'll check in when your block is closer.