Juggling different goals

ntlbell

I was wondering if people have a bit of advice I'm having some trouble and am a bit lost with managing goals/targets

I'm following hal's marathon training here

I'm not doing a marathon I'm just using the training to shed a few lbs.

I'm also training to start playing football again by doing sprint splits to try and get some football fitness up.

I also want to train for a 5k race so i want to improve my 5k times

everything kind of contradicts the other, e.g. when i should be running easy for my marathon training i need to run a bit harder to quicken up my 5k times etc

Am I just trying to do too much at the same time and concentrate one one? or is there a way in cooperate everything into one training schedule?

cfitz

ntlbell wrote: »

I was wondering if people have a bit of advice I'm having some trouble and am a bit lost with managing goals/targets

I'm following hal's marathon training here

I'm not doing a marathon I'm just using the training to shed a few lbs.

I'm also training to start playing football again by doing sprint splits to try and get some football fitness up.

I also want to train for a 5k race so i want to improve my 5k times

everything kind of contradicts the other, e.g. when i should be running easy for my marathon training i need to run a bit harder to quicken up my 5k times etc

Am I just trying to do too much at the same time and concentrate one one? or is there a way in cooperate everything into one training schedule?

Looks to me like you have 3 goals:

1. Lose weight
2. Get into shape for football
3. Run a decent 5k race

In my mind, the marathon training doesn't really fit in with these goals. It would be a good way of losing weight, but not perfect for your 5k goal, and way off for your football preparation.

To lose weight, I suggest building up to running 5/6 days per week for an average of about 30 minutes. When you're starting to feel fit, once per week do something a little shorter but fast.

This training will probably help your football in the beginning just to get a bit of fitness, but after a while you could replace two of your running sessions with sprints/weights/drills - or whatever footballers do to work on their sharpness (I wouldn't know).

Lastly, to run a good 5k race, you would ideally do it during the off-season from football, but if that's not an option you could: Increase the length of one run per week to 40-60 minutes. Do some interval running where you run really hard, say, 5 times for 2 minutes each time, with 1-2 minutes rest in between.

ntlbell

cheers,

I think I'll drop the marathon training all right.

Very simple the way you put it.

cheers