My Marathon Training Program (I should follow Hal Higdon)
I remember last December starting to train for the Marathon. I was running less than 30Miles/week and decided to increase my mileage by 10% per week and my long run by 1mile per week, until my long runs would reach 20Miles (or 32Kms, minimum required to finish the Marathon) and my weekly mileage to reach 50MPW. However when I reached 44Miles/week (70Kms/wk) and a long run of only 12Miles, I felt awful so I double checked the my book “Marathon” written by the famous Hal Higdon. I was surprised my weekly mileage was too high compared to his training program on the same long run. For example, when I did the 12Mile long run, my mileage was 44MPW, when Hal’s program was only 30MPW. I was running 14Miles longer per week, or 46.67% more than I should be, so that explained why I felt so tired. Now I’ve followed his program for 3weeks and I’ve reached 15 Miles of Long run with only 35MPW, I felt better. I’m now resting while I write this blog, but I can’t wait to run again tomorrow morning.
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Its your discipline that will bring you there. Just follow your program and you’ll be surprised then. Keep up the good work.
>Thank you master.
I used Hal Higdon’s routine for my first marathon. I will be running my second tomorrow also using a routine I used from his website. The beginner was a great confidence builder, ditto with his intermediate plan. His routines works, most of the problem came from user error he he!
Good luck!
>Thanks bro! Good luck with your second marathon tomorrow! I guess you would probably smash your first marathon time. About the problem coming from the user —> I could be guilty of this. I never followed the “step-back” of long runs for every third week. I kept it rising for 1mile per week for several weeks now until I have reached 16miles today. Is this bad?
It could be and you are risking yourself of overuse injury. Higdon designed it for gradual increase to prevent injury. He even cautioned everyone to taper down in the latter months kasi most people will be over excited to recover before the race. Good luck.
I’ll be using his post marathon routine for the next month.
>Ok sir, I will follow this. I’ll lower my long-run this week down to 12miles instead of 17 miles.