digitalrunning.com/couch-to... I have posted this 52 weeks long "Couch to Marathon" training plan before. I discovered it a couple of months ago when I was really doing it tough - to the point where I was considering giving it all up after 4 years of running. It also happened to coincide with a time when it was exactly 52 weeks to my favorite Marathon festival on the Gold Coast of Queensland Australia - one that I have done the HM once and three times just gone down there at silly o'clock in the morning , mid-winter, pitch black, with tens of thousands of other enthusiasts to yell and scream at tens of thousands of masochistic runners . I instinctively liked the 2 steps forward , one step back approach of this plan - with total weekly distances and individual longrun distances building all the time. I also liked the idea that any particular longrun distance was done more than once - and I very much liked the idea that the first week only had me running 6 miles (10Klms) at whatever pace I wanted - something that I could easily do. BTW - I am ignoring all the annotations, stars and alphabet characters alongside the numbers and just following the numbers (using Galloway style run/walk) . I am up to week 9 so far with no problems - apart from that I have become VERY well aware that I am now 5 years older since I first started running . The longest distance I have ever covered has been a single 15 mile (24 klm) longrun during a week where I totaled 24 miles (39klm) . After week 24 , this plan has weekly totals in excess of that every single week for the next 24 weeks!!! At this time, I can't really imagine a number of things - simple things like , where the heck can I find somewhere that long to run?? I know a couple of places an hours drive away which are scenic, flat, plenty of facilities , with good running paths up to 40 klm long - but every week????
Or maybe this is just all too much and I could follow this plan until say week 24 ( HM distance) and then start up a much less demanding Galloway marathon programme??
Miles and miles and miles!!!!! - Fun Beyond 10K & ...
Miles and miles and miles!!!!!
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That’s what puts me off long distances. I’m slow and finding the time for anything over 15k is difficult. Plus, as you say, where do I go for such long runs? I suppose I could work out a few long routes on my bike. But I don’t think I want to go down that path - running for me is to keep me healthy. And fun. For the moment I’ll skip the marathons!
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Cant say I am mad on this. There are no reset weeks which I strongly feel the body needs every 4 weeks. There is also no strength or anything else in it either...
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