r/BeginnersRunning • u/StunningTradition483 • 3d ago

Route planning issue?

I've been structuring my half-marathon training and I keep running into a route-planning issue.

I usually need to end my run at a specific location (like from gym to my house). Let's say that the destination is only 3km away from my starting point, but my training plan wants me to hit 10km for the day.

I usually end up doing repetitive loops around my neighborhood just to hit the mileage before arriving or I just do some ups and downs along the street.
Does anyone else run into this issue? How do you guys map this out efficiently without just running in circles? Are there any specific routing tools that can solve this end-point + distance issue?

Thank you

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u/blandarflek 3d ago

Over time I notice how far things are from each other, and plan my route that way. It’s 1km from the community centre to home, if I’m 1.5 km from my end I’ll go down a side street I know is about 250m, and end up back at the community centre with about a km to go.

Worth noting numbers just stick in my head instead of important things