Post Connemarathon

henryporter

I know - most people are trying to focus on getting through the Connemarathon next weekend instead of worrying about what to do next. I'm doing the humble half marathon as a precursor to running the full Dublin City marathon later in the year. Being relatively inexperienced in that while I've been training for the half for the since the beginning of January and that will be my first distance race, I'm wondering what advice you all may have as to what to do in between this and the DCM.

Obviously there's a few more half marathons and 10K's between March and October that I will be getting to. I suppose the question is what sort of program should I be working on so that I could do maybe a half marathon every 6 or 8 weeks. Training schedule at the moment is M-Rest, T-5M, W-3M, T-5M, F-Rest, S-Cross, S-long run (10M this w/e). After the Connemarathon I plan taking a week off to rest a shin splint problem and then back to getting ready for another half marathon in late april/beginning of may.

Krusty_Clown

After I finished the Connemara half last year, I started to build up my mileage and then jumped into a marathon program for Longford. It seems to make sense to leverage from half-marathon training and mileage (after a rest) to push towards the marathon. However, if you want Dublin to be your first marathon, then pick out a few half marathons before-hand and try to improve your speed and increase your mileage. Some other suitable half's: Longford, Achill, Dublin, etc.

RacoonQueen

Most 'training plans' are 16-18 weeks long which means you'd be starting it sometime in June. In that case just maintain your fitness until you'd be embarking on a full training plan, don't push yourself and look after any injuries. I use times like them to treat injuries, lose any extra pounds I may be looking to lose and basically just enjoying an extra inkling of freedom to ditch a training sesh for a night in front of the telly. But sure, keep doing the shorter distance races, the adidas race series is brilliant for DCM prep. there are training plans on the DCM website and there are the Hal Higdon ones aswell which people on here are very fond of http://www.halhigdon.com/ the Hal Higdon site also has great info on what to do after a race as you go from one race into training for another.

henryporter

Cheers Guys. All sound advice - I may consider doing another marathon before Dublin. I know Longford can be a tough one as you're out in the country alot without many encouraging crowds. Maybe Cork?

who007

I suggest carb loading at the bar afterwards