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First time marathon preparation

  • 19-09-2011 10:54am
    #1
    hamstervision
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    Hi,

    I'm doing the Dublin City Marathon on October 31st. My goal all along has been to hit 30-35km in my training runs before the actual marathon (I've no specific time in mind, I just want to be able to run from start to finish - ie, no walking). I did the Dublin Half Marathon on Saturday in the Pheonix Park and was intending to go back to increasing the distances in my long training runs (last one before the Half Marathon was 26km). In my head I would keep increasing the distances until the week before the marathon.

    Now I've just been speaking to a pretty experienced distance runner in work. He's now told me that I shouldn't be doing anything that long near to the marathon or my body won't have time to recover and I'll get tired during the race, which seems to make sense. So his suggestion was:

    Sat 24 Sep: ~20km (recovery from the Half Marathon)
    Sat 1 Oct: 28-30km (last big run before the Marathon)
    Sat 8 Oct: ~20km (start to wind down)
    Sat 15 Oct: ~16km
    Sat 22 Oct: ~10km

    And that would have me recovered in time for the day. Is this good advice? Or should be sticking to my earlier schedule, or a mix somewhere in between?

    ***EDIT***
    I should mention I'm also doing 2 x ~5km runs midweek in between, though none the week before the actual marathon.
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