Basic Running Journal

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Your Running Journal

Your improvement starts with your mind. Not your shoe, not your barbell, not your app. Your mind.

We believe in the power of your running journal to express and distill that mind. From the goal freshly inked onto a piece of paper to the circled PR written under a hard workout.

Why? Because by writing, your running journal harnesses the power of your mind. It easily records successes, failures, goals and workouts. It is designed for those workouts. Your journal is beautiful, durable and made to help you get faster.

Your Running Journal Workout Pages

We’ve designed the workout page of your running journal to record the most important aspects of your workout. Pace and distance reign supreme, but there’s also plenty of space to record any cross-training.

The workout page includes room for recording the important metrics like water, sleep and nutrition.

By recording your workouts over time you are creating a valuable trove of data. This allows you to look back and see what you have completed and where you can improve.

It allows you to choose the right workouts for the right days and address problems before they become injuries.

Stay consistent and know yourself by recording your workouts every day!

Goal Planning and Setting

The goal page is where you put down your ideas. It’s where you sit down the aspirations you hope to achieve with this running journal.

Goals are one of the most important aspects to athletic performance and achievement.

Simply by writing your goals down, you increase the chance you will achieve those goals by over 40%!

Nutrition

Good nutrition is the foundation of athletic performance, weight loss and health.

We’ve included a nutrition primer in your running journal and a list of healthy foods you should strive to keep in your pantry.

By fueling yourself properly you will have more energy, be able to work longer, and focus harder.

Mobility for Runners

Mobility is the act of stretching effectively for exercise. Mobility is unbelievably important to keeping yourself healthy as you train your muscles to work harder.

When something starts hurting or aching, lots of times it’s because your muscles have tightened up. That’s why we’ve included a mobility chart in your running journal to help you identify and solve aches and pains.

Being proactive about mobility is vital to training safely and staying away from injury.

Race Planning

The big day is coming you need a plan to get there. Make sure your distance and your speed is where you want it when the race starts.

Without a training plan, you’re kind of hoping that everything goes well. That’s why we include a sample one and the tools to make your own.

With your running journal training plan, you can train smartly towards your race. When you don’t hit the numbers you need, you’ve got a plan to help revise your expectations.

However, when you blow past where your training numbers you should start considering which stars to shoot for.

PR Tables

While it’s important to record your workouts daily, it’s also important to record those moments when hit a new personal record!

By recording these PR’s in your running journal you create a portfolio of your best performances which you can learn from. Then, by using our PR tracking tables you can go back to the specific date where you performed it.

Using that date, you can mine for clues and data from that week to help you get even more personal records.

It’s beyond important to record your best times and keep them in one spot so you can see your progression at a glance

Running Journal Pace Charts

It’s important to know what speeds you should be hitting for the workout you are doing each day.

Consider if you are training for a 3 hour and 30 minute marathon. You should know what your speed day should look like on your fast tempo days. Just as importantly, what does it look like on your long slow distance days?

Training too fast on a slow day means you won’t have enough time to recover for your fast days. That means you don’t get faster and your top speed stalls out.

Getting the right speed is why it’s important to know and hit your pacing numbers and why we’ve included a robust pacing chart in this running journal.

Your Running Journal Cover

Your cover of your running journal should be beautiful. It should last, and it should represent you.

The running journal cover is made of a highly durable polymer paper. This allows us to print incredibly vivid and distinct designs based on your own artwork or ours.

We want your cover to represent you, your aesthetic, your aspirations and your dreams.

If there’s anything you want to change about your cover let us know in the order notes. We’ll do our best to make it the best, most perfect cover you can imagine.