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The second most important training?

  • 13-02-2012 2:58pm
    #1
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    Have taken up running in recent years, started at the 5kms, 10km fun runs, building it up to the Dublin City Marathon last November and now doing off road running too. Scraped in under the 4 hours at DCM...so now what training should I do to kick on from that?

    Have done and continue to do a fair bit of running, maybe about 15-20 miles a week at the moment. So does one just keep running more and more and varying the routes and bring in hills or sprints or look at techniques like Lydiard and Fartlek training (not even sure they are popular, have just seen references to them around the place). Or should one be introducing things like cycling or yoga or looking at diets etc? I'd like to eventually run a 3.30. Not gonna change my whole life and move to a high altitude climate mind, but what apart from runs and long slow runs woud be the next training one might look at?


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  • #2
    ecoli
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    Conor74 wrote: »
    Have taken up running in recent years, started at the 5kms, 10km fun runs, building it up to the Dublin City Marathon last November and now doing off road running too. Scraped in under the 4 hours at DCM...so now what training should I do to kick on from that?

    Have done and continue to do a fair bit of running, maybe about 15-20 miles a week at the moment. So does one just keep running more and more and varying the routes and bring in hills or sprints or look at techniques like Lydiard and Fartlek training (not even sure they are popular, have just seen references to them around the place). Or should one be introducing things like cycling or yoga or looking at diets etc? I'd like to eventually run a 3.30. Not gonna change my whole life and move to a high altitude climate mind, but what apart from runs and long slow runs woud be the next training one might look at?

    Running can be as complex or as simple as you make it. Training is all about stress, recovery, adapt. At a certain point you get used to doing the same thing and as such need different training stimulus (train more or train differently)

    There is a thread at the moment in the training logs which does a continual plan week by week targetting races every month or two which will ultimately culminate in DCM this year that may interest you:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056440724&page=51

    (I can personally attest to the guy who does up the plan each week :D)


  • #3
    RayCun
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    Join a club. Get some coaching, run different sessions there.


  • #4
    TFBubendorfer
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    Conor74 wrote: »
    Have done and continue to do a fair bit of running, maybe about 15-20 miles a week at the moment.

    It's all about perception, I suppose, but 15-20 mpw does not count as "a fair bit of running" for a marathon runner.

    Your best bet is to follow a proper training program, and follow it consistently. I suggest you get the book "Advanced marathon running", often called P&D here in this forum and give it a go, but there are others as well.

    It's what I used to get under 3:30.

    It might also open your eyes to the mileage required.


  • #5
    PaulieC
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    Conor74 wrote: »
    Have taken up running in recent years, started at the 5kms, 10km fun runs, building it up to the Dublin City Marathon last November and now doing off road running too. Scraped in under the 4 hours at DCM...so now what training should I do to kick on from that?

    Is this me ? I don't remember posting this...especially under a different username :D


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