Belfast Marathon

shels4ever

Hi All,
If anyone has registered for the Belfast marathon and didnt get a confirmation mail. This is normal you will recieve a letter in the post in the next 2 week.

shels4ever

Ok having registeered for the marathon I've been looking into a training plan for this. At the moment i'm not sure which plan to follow been looking at the Hal Higdon's Novice plans but to me they look to be a little easy( maybe i'm wrong).

I'm thinking of doing maybe the Marathon Training Schedule: Intermediate II looks to be about right, I'm planning on starting 14 week before the marathon and my weekly training at the moment would be at about week 6-7 of this plan. I will be doing 35 miles a week for the next 5 week before the marathon plan starts but this will include a good bit of speed work.

I'm coming of an ok base phase at the moment and my last 3-4 months training have gone well.

Also the Intermediate II only has 4 running days per week and 1 cross . I was thinking of 6 running and one cross session per week with one rest day ( I know one double day). The only 5 days ever 4th week.

Any ideas welcome.

Cheers.

Woddle

I would say you'll be going into marathon training with a solid foundation and I think your right the novice would be a bit easier, would you consider the 55 mile pfitzinger & Douglas schedule ?
I found this great, granted I didn't follow it to the letter, but I will be this time around once xmas is over, if you don't have the book, I'll lend it to you, it's a great read and you'll know exactly why your doing each session.

shels4ever

That sounds good to me, I was thinking of mileage aronud the 50+ mark . I might take you up on the offer of the book.

shels4ever

Well thats me in 100% . I know my race number now just need to do the training . I'm glad I decided to do this.

Also thinking ofr doing the Larn half marahon unless I can find another half around March/April closer.

Guisseppeth

shels4ever wrote: »

Also thinking ofr doing the Larn half marahon unless I can find another half around March/April closer.

Connemara on 22nd March??

shels4ever

I think entries have closed due to the problem with permit for now, waiting to see what happens there.

shels4ever

oh jsut seen that they have opened entries for that again, going to register, but was looking for a flatter one to get an idea of time..

Guisseppeth

Its open for another few days by the looks of things. Those permit problems were resolved last week.

http://www.connemarathon.com/entry-closing-soon

shels4ever

Great , I'll look around for a flat one , if I dont find one by tomorrow I may register for that.