This is as big and bad as I go in marathon training, usually. On rest days I love a class like dance, yoga or cycling, or swimming laps for an hour. I stretch before and after workouts, and hopefully remember to do strides and abs too. My coach has kinda had me like roughly this way, but with specific workouts within the average mileage since I was like 18ish. That is what I worked my way up to with a coach. I loved when I did ballroom dancing on rest days, but my usual activity is swimming laps. It is easy to sign up for a group class with a studio and join a pool! Group classes are fun. These schedules after years of hard work is why 26.2 is such a prestigious event to be good at running, it is not just a day… I wonder how people run ultras over 50 miles, it just is not something I would do even with my past.😬

My advice with running any distance for sport is to have custom insoles and several pairs of nice sneakers, because you need it for your health. You can buy a couple pairs of shoes in the same color and no one would know you have multiple pairs. Make your coach or school buy them if they are telling you to run.😉😉😉 I just would not run if I did not have the proper gear.