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Molly600
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 Posted: 09/27/06 - 16:15 Post subject: Quick half question
For someone consistently running 20 mpw, but with consistently only doing 5-6 mile long runs (5 more so than 6 really), is 7 weeks for a first half pushing it too much and not a good idea????
As y'all know I've been yo-yoing about doing a half, and a full, and there's a local full in the spring I was thinking about doing. For some reason, I just realized there is a very close half on Nov. 18 but wish I would've found it earlier.....
Plus, if I decide to do the full, the training program would start on Dec. 2. 2 weeks after 7 weeks of training for the half.
Is it a bad idea to even think about this half? Thanks.
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Posted: 09/27/06 - 16:23 Post subject:
If you treat it as a long run it should be fine. Look at Hal Higdon's novice program. You start at 6 miles for long, but within 7 or 8 weeks I think you're up in that neck of the woods.
It would put you in great position for the full marathon.
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Molly600
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Posted: 09/27/06 - 16:29 Post subject:
| Pug wrote: | If you treat it as a long run it should be fine. Look at Hal Higdon's novice program. You start at 6 miles for long, but within 7 or 8 weeks I think you're up in that neck of the woods.
It would put you in great position for the full marathon. |
But would it be too many weeks training and then put me at the wrong place in the long run training for the full on April 1?
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Pug
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Posted: 09/27/06 - 16:37 Post subject:
| Molly600 wrote: | | Pug wrote: | If you treat it as a long run it should be fine. Look at Hal Higdon's novice program. You start at 6 miles for long, but within 7 or 8 weeks I think you're up in that neck of the woods.
It would put you in great position for the full marathon. |
But would it be too many weeks training and then put me at the wrong place in the long run training for the full on April 1? |
Well, the half is in 7 weeks, so you'd just build up your distance to around 10-12 miles for a long run before the half with a rest week or 1.5 week before the half.
Then, you can recover a week, step back a bit on the long run to 8's and then step into the full marathon training program and you'd have a better base for the full marathon than you do now and you don't need to stress about the base training after the half if you keep running.
The question is: What training program are you using and what does it want you to have as a base? The answer will tell you what you need to do between now and the start of marathon training.
Figure that you build the long runs in a progression like this for the half:
W1: 6
W2: 7
W3: 8
W4: 6
W5: 9
W6: 10
W7: 7
This assumes that at the end of Week 8 you would have the half and that week 7 is not the half. It jumps, but if you're using this as a longer training run and just run the race rather than race the race, then you'll be fine. This would all be building for the marathon.
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Posted: 09/27/06 - 16:38 Post subject:
I agree with Pug. And you can adjust the marathon training program. Do the half Molly in preperation for the full.
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