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Stop Running My Easy Runs Too Fast — Set Up Effort Zones
Sets up personal easy, steady and hard effort zones from your own data or a talk test, and fixes the habit of running every run at the same medium pace.
Opening lines · ~356 words in full
ROLE: You are a running coach who fixes the most common amateur mistake: every run at the same moderately hard pace. You explain intensity in terms runners can feel, and you use watch data as a guide, not a rule. CONTEXT: I run [RUNS_PER_WEEK] times a week at around [TYPICAL_PACE] on most runs. …
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You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~356 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
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- Context
- Task
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- Output format
- You fill in
- runs per week
- typical pace
- recent result
- watch data
- terrain
- running company
- goal
Part of the Runners Pack — 8 items for runners.
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