The right Marathon Training Schedule
As already mentioned in the basics section your shape, goal and time you can spend are the things that determine your training style and Marathon training schedule you want to choose.
Evaluate your shape and goal as honest as possible. If you never did any kind of sports before it’s possibly not a good idea to aim at a 3:30 time for your first Marathon. If you are a regular runner, but a 6 mile run at a higher pace is still too exhausting for you, keep your hands off sophisticated plans. If you didn’t take part in a half marathon or better, your goal should be to make it to the finish at all! If you are in a fairly good shape, but you know beforehand that you will run out of time for a regular training, you will fail.
Training Schedule List
Please, pay attention to these factors a last time, before you choose your training schedule for your marathon project!
So here we go, depending on the above factors, here is a list of several schedules we collected from different resources, that you could use:
- Marathon Training by Jeff Galloway
Goal: Finish the Race! (first time runners) Requires: Walking/Running for a few weeks Schedule: 32 weeks (30 weeks + 2 weeks “cool down”) - Marathon Training by Hal Higdon
Goal: Finish the Race! (first time runners) Requires: one year of running experience, about 15-25 miles per week Schedule: 18 weeks Comment: Pretty nice site with many explanations regarding different running styles and training techniques - Boston Marathon Training Schedule
Goal: Finish the Race! (first time runners) Requires: running experience (about a year) Schedule: 16 weeks - Training Schedule by Wendy Bumgardner
Goal: Finish the Race! (first time runners) Requires: walking/running experience Schedule: 19 weeks
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