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Marathon is have done less than the Higdon plan?

  • 15-01-2010 8:08pm
    #1
    Filan
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    The ice has really halted my progress then past 6 weeks...feel and had to stop for a week, thereafter there was constant ice here...thinking now of doing a half rather than a full marathon in May, although I'm sure the achievement after a full would feel much greater....would it be possible to do so with 3 weekly runs between now and may rather than the 4 as outlined by Higdon? had been fairly fit durable albeit not fast.


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  • #2
    metamorphosis
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    This would be better posted in the athletics forum.

    It all depends on your fitness and previous running experience. Are you already running fit or pretty fir in general? If so you may be able to do the marathon(great limerick run i presume) in time. There are some 3 month programmes out there that may suit you if you are already pretty fit or already run a bit.

    If not, the half marathon is 100% do able for may. Hal hidgeons plan is a good one and used by many very successfully.


  • #3
    Oryx
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    I did my only marathon by sticking closely, but not rigidly, to a plan posted here which was a version of HH novice. The most important thing to me when training was to do the progressive increase in distance, esp as the runs get quite long. Miss too many of them and the marathon will not be fun. You do really need to try and get in the mileage required for the latter part of the plan, as youre not just building stamina but getting your body.. muscles, bones, joints... used to the rigors of running a lot. I only truly understood why Id put in all the training at about mile 18 of the marathon. :) It has nothing to do with building speed to do it fast the first time, but having the resilience to slog out the miles at a comfy pace and finishing in one piece.

    The hardest thing about a marathon is not the 26.2 miles, but the 400 or so training miles you did in the months prior to the mara!


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