How It Works
Joining Your 26.2 means you are part of a marathon training team, all training toward a common goal: Marathon Personal Bests!
Options:
- Free Membership - provides access to our calculators, to be used with our free training plans. [FREE]
- Standard Membership - provides access to all of our member area resources and the ability to copy our free training plans into an interactive online training log for your event! [$19.99/28 day]
- Custom Membership - provides access to all of our member area resources as well as a custom written training plan around your races, life logistics, and daily workout availability [detailed questionnaire required]. There are two payment options for this membership: 1) Per Diem - your plan is written for a specific goal event up to 30 weeks away. The fee for your plan is charged upon delivery based on the length of your plan. [$95 + $19/week]; 2) Annual - You have up to 52 weeks of training plan available each year. These can be broken up however you'd like. Finish one, then have us write the next, up to 3 plans a year! This option requires a 52 week commitment. [$75/28 days]; If you are looking for more detailed support, visit our sister website QT2 Systems for 1-1 coaching [HERE]
What you get (paid options only):
- You are part of a marathon training team, and you get the support of your team members!
- Training support via our Ask the Coach Forum with our coaches dedicated to answer questions via the forum, as needed (4 hour turnaround time in most cases).
- Online training log, where workouts are posted, and used to record results/track progress for each workout.
- You get your workouts emailed to you on your IPhone or Blackberry, two days in advance!
- Set-up of training periodization for your training plan. For the Custom Memberships, this will consider your goal races and other personal commitments (provided in PDF).
- Daily workouts, issued for entire period of your plan.
- Periodic (~monthly) web-based presentations/conference calls to ask questions of our coaches.
- Fueling guide, including how to fuel race day, the race day breakfast, and the carbohydrate load.
- Nutrition/Diet guide including detailed information on how to execute the Core Diet, lose weight, and improve performance.Your 26.2 athletes also receive a 15% discount on all initial fees at TheCoreDiet.com!
- Injury fix guide detailing how to identify and recover from common running injuries (although we try to avoid them altogether).
- Run pace calculator which helps you determine a reasonable race pace based on your training metrics.
- Heart rate calculator which can be used by you to determine appropriate heart rate training zones.
| BENEFIT | FREE | STANDARD | CUSTOM |
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| Marathon Training Team | √ | √ | √ |
| Team Forum | √ | √ | √ |
| Access to Team Apparel | √ | √ | √ |
| Run Pace Calculator | √ | √ | √ |
| Heart Rate Calculator | √ | √ | √ |
| Key Workouts | √ | √ | |
| Your Name Added to Our Athlete Map | √ | √ | √ |
| Training Support via our Ask the Coach Forum | √ | √ | |
| Periodization for YOUR Training Plan (PDF) | √ | √ | |
| Detailed Strength Training Plan | √ | √ | |
| Online Training Log W/ Daily Workouts | √ | √ | |
| Workouts Emailed to You Every Day | √ | √ | |
| Training Plan Built Around YOUR Limiters and Races | √ | ||
| Training Plan Built Around YOUR Life Logistics | √ | ||
| Specific Field Testing and Review of HR zones | √ | ||
| Periodic (~monthly) Calls W/ Our Coaches | √ | √ | |
| Fueling Guide | √ | √ | |
| Nutrition/Diet Guide | √ | √ | |
| Injury Fix Guide | √ | √ | |
| Core Diet Discounts and Partner Discounts | √ | √ | |
| REGISTER | START A FREE TRIAL NOW!
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How to start:
- Sign up [HERE] for a free, standard, or custom membership.
- Free - Access the member area immediately. Standard - Receive confirmation within 24 hours that your plan is ready in your training log and receive access to the full member area immediately! Custom - Have your custom training plan written by one of our coaches within 10 days, and receive access to the full member area immediately!
- You must have a heart rate monitor to properly use are training program. It is also recommended that you get a GPS device to help track your running pace progress.
- Access our member area, learn and begin training!
**NOTE: For per diem Custom Memberships, the full Plan fee is charged upon delivery of your plan. Annual memberships require a 52 week commitment and are billed at $75 every 28 days by automatic credit card debit. No more than 3 plans per year will be written, or a total of 52 weeks of training for annual memberships (whichever limit is reached first).**
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