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Submitted via Coach Jose Miranda, http://educatedrunning.com
In case you haven't already heard, Pokémon Go is a mobile game for iOS and Android devices that syncs with your phone's GPS and camera to simulate the appearance of Pokémon in the real world.
You can capture, battle, and train your Pokémon using your own avatar, which in my experience has been highly entertaining and addicting.
Thirty miles was a fairly big jump, considering that the week before I only ran eight miles. After running a decent opening half-marathon in May, I struggled to restart my training.
Then, when Niantic released Pokémon Go in early July, the Running Coach in me thought that incorporating the game into my training might be a fun way to regain motivation. So, my business partner and coach, Patrick Hammond, wrote a week of Pokémon Go workouts (yes, even running coaches have coaches), and together we established two simple ground rules for the training week.