4 runs/week + sporadic additions vs 5 runs/week + sporadic skips
Hi all,
I’m new to Runna but I am training for my second marathon, Berlin 2026! Before this, I had a personal running coach who made my plans for me and adjusted based on my life weekly. I found that training 5 days/week every week is very hard for me with my job and trying to incorporate 2-3 strength workouts/week. However, some weeks my job is very light and I can very easily add a 5th run in. I would say I can confidently always do 4 runs/week and 5 runs/week 55-60% of the time.
Does it make more sense for me to have a 4 run plan where I’m adding an ad hoc 5th run more often than not or to have a 5 run plan where I’m removing one of my runs 40% of the time?
I’m not very familiar with the system’s AI so please forgive me if this is a dumb question, but I want to make the technology work as intended!