A plan for your next chapter
First-marathon routes last twenty-four, twenty or sixteen weeks, each requiring an established base. The run-walk version also assumes prior longer-distance experience. Five-day improver, six-day performance and twelve-week specific options are for already-prepared runners.
Plans found: 7
Marathon
Six months of preparation is useful, but it still begins with an established running base rather than the couch.
Starting point: An established running base
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Build long-run experience and practical race skills together, with enough easy running around the big outings.
Starting point: An established running base
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Use planned walk breaks as a pacing strategy, with the same respect for marathon preparation as a continuous-running plan.
Starting point: An established running base
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A familiar label needs an honest starting line: this is a first-marathon plan for someone already running regularly and long.
Starting point: An established running base
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Use your previous marathon to identify a pacing, fuelling or consistency problem, then work on that rather than simply adding more.
Starting point: Building on previous events
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For runners already comfortable with six days, using additional easy running rather than six opportunities to work hard.
Starting point: An experienced training routine
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Twelve weeks is the final chapter of your preparation, not the whole book.
Starting point: An experienced training routine
View programmeNo programmes meet those browsing choices. Try another duration, frequency or goal.
Understand what shorter and longer calendars can, and cannot, change.
Read the guideArrange training around sustainable frequency, recovery and the rest of your life.
Read the guideKeep easy running easy and understand why a time-based plan still needs distance checks.
Read the guideA practical interruption guide that treats recovery as part of the plan.
Read the guidePlan a run. Set a goal. Make the numbers simple.
