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6 month Marathon training program

  • 20-09-2010 10:25AM
    #1
    muldoocs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭


    Hi I was doing a lot of running - mountain and road - but injured myself by over doing it. I've been off for nearly 5 weeks and am just starting to train again. This time however I want to do it right. I'm planing to run the Connemara marathon so I have over 6 month and was wondering if any one had a good 6 month training schedual in Kms.
    Cheers


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  • #2
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,530 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    muldoocs wrote: »
    Hi I was doing a lot of running - mountain and road - but injured myself by over doing it. I've been off for nearly 5 weeks and am just starting to train again. This time however I want to do it right. I'm planing to run the Connemara marathon so I have over 6 month and was wondering if any one had a good 6 month training schedual in Kms.
    Cheers
    You could try Pfitzinger and Douglas Advanced marathoning book, which has a 24 week program (If I remember correctly). Personally I found that 24 weeks was too long, so my own preference would be to follow a solid 10k program (and stretch the long runs to longer than the program suggests) and then launch into an 18 week marathon program.


  • #3
    muldoocs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭muldoocs


    Cheers Krusty - that sounds like a plan.
    Though I've done a fair bit of running I'm new to the idea of Farltex/interval training. Do many people incorporate this into their training? And if you dont have access to a gym is sprint - walk the main way of doing it?


  • #4
    opus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,110 ✭✭✭opus


    muldoocs wrote: »
    Though I've done a fair bit of running I'm new to the idea of Farltex/interval training. Do many people incorporate this into their training? And if you dont have access to a gym is sprint - walk the main way of doing it?

    There's a whole raft of plans available on the Runner's World web site but think they're all 16 weeks long, some of them can be downloaded to a Garmin watch so are very handy if you have one. Been following one myself & will find out next w/end how well it works (or not!).

    I did the Fartlek bits of the training plan by just picking some random thing in the distance & then running faster 'til I got to it & then dropping back to a slower pace, repeat as needed. Iinterval training was a mix of a running track for the shorter ones (eg 12x400m) and along the road/park for the longer ones (eg 5x1m).


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