I sometimes wonder about the app suggestions. I'm extremely active and usually r*n 5 or 6 days in a row with 1 day off and Fitbit will often tell me I need to do a lot more or I risk under training. I'm glad I know what it was like before the tech came along, I wonder how it will work out for new/younger athletes.
Yes - I still have a 10k, 8k, 5k, LSD schedule etched in to my brain. It was really quite effective for us middle of the packers. Little risk of overtraining, just enough to make sure you could do the distance. At my fittest I was certainly running more than that, but those were the "official" run days. And I liked that it was just organic and not a watch telling me what to do.
But without the motivation of an old school run club I like that the garmin gives me some external motivation. And it's sensible - if I came out of the gate running daily right now I'd tweak something and that would be the end of that.
I am really hoping that my daughters gym schedule lines up with the one run club I like come September. It's not the same as it was back in the day, but better than nothing.
My big, existential goal with this is to be able to run long again. 3 hour long runs, 30k long runs. They're just so good for me mentally. It's been way too many years since I've done it.
