what distances in training?
big4ndy
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Hi,
I've signed up for a Sprint in may, the London Olympic distance in July and the great Scottish run half marathon in September.
Running my worst discipline.
Should I start by focusing on the shorter distances until after the Sprint or should be focusing on getting miles in early in the year?
Cheers
I've signed up for a Sprint in may, the London Olympic distance in July and the great Scottish run half marathon in September.
Running my worst discipline.
Should I start by focusing on the shorter distances until after the Sprint or should be focusing on getting miles in early in the year?
Cheers
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Split your sessions up into the following
Jan-Feb - 80% Long Slow 20% intensive
Late Feb-April building to 60% LS 40% intensive
April-May - 20% LS 80% intensive
SPRINT
May - recovery week after race
Rest of May - start of June - 40% LS 60% Intensive
June-July - 25% LS 75% Intensive
OLYMPIC
July - recovery week after race
Rest of July - August 40% LS 60% Intensive
August-Sept - Reduce from 40% LS 60% Intensive to taper in last 2 weeks prior to Half
roughly something like that without going into too much detail.
Always do at least one long bike (over race distance/expected time) and one long run (building to over distance)
To run a half marathon you only really need to run 10 miles max.... if your short of time/ not too bothered about finish time....
However I always find if you only run 10 miles, those last 3 are an effing long way......I like to run overdistance say upto 15 or 16 miles, then when you do 13 it seems easy..... however i wouldnt run more than 23/24 miles when training for a full marathon.
Thanks very much for that. My year is pretty much set out now.
Much appreciated!