Free running app with training plans

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So I finally wanted to incorporate some different runs rather than my usual plod and downloaded nike run club as I'd seen loads of recommendations. Looks like the feature I was after was removed late last year though...

Any other recommendations? I'm tight so don't want to pay for an app, but I don't want to follow a pdf like nike running suggest. Not even sure how that works do you run with a piece of paper and your stopwatch set on your phone 😁

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There are apps that let you program your intervals or whatever, then alert you.

Oh that's probably it, a faff setting up but might give it a go thank you

I have a free app called Interval Timer (icon is a blue screen displaying '0:30') which should do everything you want.

I think that if you have a Garmin you can set intervals within that, but I've never tried it

I think the idea with Nike Run Club's plans is that you download the guided run for the runs in your plan, so if your plan has a 5k run you download one of the 5k guided runs and it will tell you when to stop and start and give encouragement along the way. I'm not specifically following a plan but I choose one that matches the time/distance/sort of run I want to do - I find the interval guided runs are particularly useful because they tell you when to stop and start

If I'm wanting to focus on running, I'll repeat C25k podcasts. Yesterday I did 11 miles using the 10 mins run, 3 mins walk, 10 mins run format on week 6 run 2.

The three C25k+ podcasts are also good.

On runkeeper you can easily add your own workouts - choose to include a five minute warm up or not, put in your different intervals and choose 'repeat x times' or 'until I stop'.

I clicked on the thread to say Nike Running Club. I've started using it this week and have loosely been following the first week of the half marathon plan. I've done a recovery run, two speed work outs and a 12 minute run and have found them all really good. What feature was it that you were missing? Not sure what they used to have to compare

I clicked on the thread to say Nike Run Club too!

The Nike running club app has training plans which link to the guided runs in the app www.nike.com/gb/running/training-plans.

I think Zombies Run might have free training plans too.

I tried a free trial of the Peloton app which I thought was quite good for the outdoor runs and Aaptiv which is similar. I like to do free trials and then cancel a lot!

I had a look on Zombies Run and they do have free training plans. I just downloaded the story of Nellie Bly to run to.

I downloaded Zombies Run too. Did my first run with it today, it's pretty fun. Zombies caught me once lol

The zombies always catch me haha