Coach Claire has helped hundreds of real runners chase their dreams and conquer what they never thought possible. Her coaching philosophy combines science-based training, plant-based running nutrition, and proven mindset techniques to unlock every runner's true potential. She's a certified vegan running coach, sports nutrition specialist, mom, and borderline obsessive plant lover. As an athlete herself, she went from a 4:02 first marathon all the way to a 2:58 finishing time at the age of 42, entirely plant-based. She coaches vegan, plant-based, and plant-curious runners to achieve the same dramatic success, from those on a walk-run program, general fitness, up to high-level athletes
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The Planted Runner
Coach Claire has helped hundreds of real runners chase their dreams and conquer what they never thought possible. Her coaching philosophy combines science-based training, plant-based running nutrition, and proven mindset techniques to unlock every runner's true potential. She's a certified vegan running coach, sports nutrition specialist, mom, and borderline obsessive plant lover. As an athlete herself, she went from a 4:02 first marathon all the way to a 2:58 finishing time at the age of 42, entirely plant-based. She coaches vegan, plant-based, and plant-curious runners to achieve the same dramatic success, from those on a walk-run program, general fitness, up to high-level athletes
One of the most confusing terms we runners have is "tempo." Tempo can be anything from 5k pace to half marathon pace and can feel anywhere from a medium effort to just about all-out. With a pace and effort range like that, no wonder runners are confused! In the simplest terms, a tempo isn't a race pace. It's used to describe the pace you need to run to cross the line from medium to hard effort over a certain period of time. At first, it's not so hard. But by the end, it's really tough....
Do you count your steps? And I don't mean in the "10,000 steps a day" kind of way. I mean when you are running, do you count how many steps per inhale and exhale? A lot of people do. And a lot of people have never thought about doing that, because to tell you the truth, that sounds a little runneurotic, doesn't it? Now, I'm not telling you that you should or shouldn't count how many steps per breath. It's way more fun to count the number of cute doggos you pass. πΆ But it's a simple and...
"I don't really want to run the day before the long run, Coach." This is a comment I get fairly often. This time it was from a new marathoner who was coming back for her second marathon training plan. To be clear, there is no magic formula for marathon training. You can still train for a marathon and not run the day before the long run. (there's also people on the internet "raw dogging" marathons straight off the couch, but that's another story.) But there's a very specific reason I highly...