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October 22nd, 2007

No More Training Plan Generator

Those of you that used my training plan generator to create training plans will notice that they are no longer available.  I was contacted by Hal Higdon who requested that I remove his Spring Training plan I had on my website.  I have removed it, and to avoid any future issues with the Pftizinger plans, I have also removed those.

Posted by derek in Training

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6 Responses to “No More Training Plan Generator”

  1. alois says:

    Ouch! I guess you at least got contacted from a running legend. Maybe you can post the email. :)
    Thankfully I downloaded my pfitzinger training plan a few days ago. I am not sure it is a good thing though… it is alot of running!
    .A

  2. Yumke says:

    Well, I thank you for making it available. It has been a valuable and easy to use resource and really beat referring to my Pfitzinger book as I trained for my marathon this Sunday. Truely, I think you should offer Pftizinger and Higdon your tool as it’s vastly superior than anything I’ve seen.

    As an aside, i think it’s ridicious they’d ask you to take it down — i bought the Pftizinger book and Hidgon for a previous marathon.

  3. Jeffrey says:

    Hi Derek,

    Oh no!

    I was just going to start fiddling with dates and whether I should do a 12/18, 55/70. I thought your plan generator left off enough details/information that it was impossible to use without buying the book. Once you buy the book it becomes a useful tool. Do you think you’ll put it back online … ?

  4. derek says:

    I have sent an email to Pete Pfitzinger to see if I can get permission to have his plans on my site. I got an auto-response that he will have limited email access for this week. Maybe he would respond over the weekend or early next week.

    Alternatively, I also offered to provide him with the code so he can host it on http://www.pfitzinger.com or whereever he chooses.

    Unless I get his permission, I don’t see being able to reinstate his plans without opening up myself to lawsuits and I can’t afford that.

  5. Jeffrey says:

    Your Plan Generator is a great tool; they’d be smart to incorporate it into pfitzinger.com!

  6. derek says:

    Great news. I heard back from Pete Pfitzinger and he’s given me permission to publish up to 3 of his plans. I’ve selected 2 of the 55-mile plans and one of the 70-mile plans. I hope this would satisfy most users out there.

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