Half Marathon - Training in 7 weeks

trotter_inc

Running a half marathon at the end of April...

What sort of distance should I be running at this stage of my training? Im not really following a particular training schedule, I love jogging and do it for fun, thats why I really havent been doing much training...

At the moment Im running about 6 - 7 miles...I know I should push it a bit more... am I on track for doing the 13 miles ok? Im not aiming for a time, just a comfortable run and finish...

Thanks

Sonderval

While I am certainly no expert, I have run a marathon and did read up a good bit about what you should be doing and when. I'd say you'll be fine for the half marathon - if you can manage what your doing now well (i.e. not falling over yourself). I would (obviously) increase your running distance on the run up, culminating in a 10-13 mile run 2 weekends before. Just do light jogging then and you'll be set, I'd wager.

Good luck with the run! Let us know how you do.

StaggerLee

I've been running 5-7 miles 3 times a week for the last few months. Have done the odd 8-9 mile run. Ran 13 miles on saturday, I got around but it hurt bad, if you're not aiming for a particualr time, you'll be grand.

mor

trotter_inc wrote:

Running a half marathon at the end of April...

Is it the Bantry half marathon?

Thinking of doing it myself but its expensive.

copacetic

trotter_inc wrote:

Running a half marathon at the end of April...

What sort of distance should I be running at this stage of my training? Im not really following a particular training schedule, I love jogging and do it for fun, thats why I really havent been doing much training...

At the moment Im running about 6 - 7 miles...I know I should push it a bit more... am I on track for doing the 13 miles ok? Im not aiming for a time, just a comfortable run and finish...

Thanks

you should be fine, to give yourself the best chance, cut back some of your runs to 5 mile and do one longer one a week. eg this week do 9, then 11, 10, 13, 11, 13, 9, 7 each week in the run up. this will give you a much better feel for the distance and great confidence. If you can support this run with 4 other runs in the week of 4-6 miles, make one of these speedwork (tempo or hill run are the easiest and safest). the other 3 runs take easy enough, if you are feeling any niggles cut out 1 or 2 of the other 3 runs, but keep the speedwork and long run (wed speed, sat long run is a good option)

trotter_inc

daveym wrote:

you should be fine, to give yourself the best chance, cut back some of your runs to 5 mile and do one longer one a week. eg this week do 9, then 11, 10, 13, 11, 13, 9, 7 each week in the run up. this will give you a much better feel for the distance and great confidence. If you can support this run with 4 other runs in the week of 4-6 miles, make one of these speedwork (tempo or hill run are the easiest and safest). the other 3 runs take easy enough, if you are feeling any niggles cut out 1 or 2 of the other 3 runs, but keep the speedwork and long run (wed speed, sat long run is a good option)

Ok nice one - thanks for the advice!

copacetic

no worries, best of luck with it, consistency is the key to the training..