Welcome!!! (grab a coffee; this will be the most housekeeping email you’ll get, I promise)

We’re excited to get started with Spring training! We applied training plans Sunday night, so if you don’t see one, please make sure you’ve connected and/or created a TP plan and filled out the form. Mondays are typically off, so we’ll get you all set today and you won’t miss anything. If you do have a plan but it doesn’t seem to fit what you put in your form, reply to this email and we’ll get you sorted out. If you don’t know what form I’m talking about, it’s this one!

If you still need to connect/create an account, you can do that here. A premium account is included with the training, so don't upgrade. If you just created an account it will prompt you to upgrade, but it won't accept my upgrade until your trial is over: Just ignore all the emails.

-If you have not used Training Peaks before, or if you're interested in what the metrics are, here is an article about them.

-One of the first orders of business will be to set up training zones. If you’re new to that, here’s a video we made about it; we’ll help you with this in the first Zoom, but you can get an idea for it. there are many people in the group who have been through one of our programs before, so feel free to ask about it in Slack and I’m sure fellow athletes can help you as well.

- We’ll shoot an email out to the group every Monday morning with an overview of the coming week’s training goal as well as info on other related running topics such as nutrition, suggested podcasts, and training techniques. Please make sure that you check your spam and junk folders since the emails are delivered through our website, and sometimes get filtered to weird areas.

- If you do not have a heart rate monitor (or only have a wrist monitor) use Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) to determine the correct effort for the workout. There’s a chart below that describes the different numbers, but it’s very important that you’re honest with yourself. It’s easy to think that you’re going easy when you’re actually going somewhat hard, which limits the benefits you get from easy training, and also limits the ability to perform well and get the benefits from speedwork and harder workouts like intervals.

-Slack! If you haven’t already, join our private Slack Channel and introduce yourself! Share where you’re from, what you’re most excited about and one fun fact about yourself. Slack is a great forum to ask questions, check-in with the greater CE community and learn some fun facts.

- We will have three separate Zoom Calls throughout our 12-week program. We will send out the scheduled date / time to you at least a week prior to the call, and also post it in Slack. It will be the same link for each one, so if you find it once, you have it for the remaining times. If you’re unable to make it, we’ll record it and post it in our Member Area.

- Finally, remember that this is your program. Let us know what you’re interested in learning, and please reach out at any point with any questions via Slack-don’t be shy. If you have a question, chances are someone else does too. We really want this to be valuable for you and your goals, so help us make that happen!

Look forward to working out with all of you this Spring!

Alison and Sam