Please have a look at my marathon training plan. This was put together for me by the leader of my running group.
This will be my first marathon.
Prince of Fatness
I've only run one marathon and your plan looks similar in mileage to what I did. I was able to complete the race without a problem. It's not as high mileage as you'll see most here running but for your first marathon I think it is OK.
The only thing that stands out is your taper. I know it's an individual thing but I wouldn't taper as severely as you have in your plan. Week 17 is a 50% drop with 4 rest days. I'd go out on an easy run on at least two of those rest days.
That's all I got. Good luck Jason.
Not at it at all.
So here is my deal.
I feel like I'm as soft as a kitten. I've been totally sucking on my long runs. I've been slowed to a crawl and resorted to many, many, many, walk breaks.
Once I took some sport beans and felt sick to my stomach and just couldn't keep going..... walked the final few KM.
Last weekend on a 28k run I just faded over the final 10k.... each mile got worse.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Jason
Professional Noob
Roads were made for journeys...
That is a big jump in mileage from June to July, but you were up there in mileage for a few months before June so I don't think that it would be a big problem.
However, you've been throwing a bunch of quality in during the week while increasing mileage. How are those runs going? I'm guessing that you aren't recovered enough going into the long runs. Maybe you could try a week of easy running going into the long run and see what happens.
Thanks for the advice.
June was such a low mileage month because I was in Europe on vacation for 2 weeeks and didn't get to run.
Good point about the weekly runs.... I have been doing some speed work and longer runs during the week.. I could just be tired. The runs during the week have generally been pretty solid.
I try to get out of the house early on the weekends for my long run.... maybe I should be on the road by 6am.
Thanks again.
Had a good long run this morning.
Ran 30k and felt strong the whole way. Even managed to finish strong, final km was my fastest.
Here is what I did differently:
1. Hydrated better the night before.
2. Got to bed early
3. Ran early in the AM so it was very cool for most of the run.
4. Took 2 gels