Marathon Training Plan

Since it isn’t enough for me to put my training plan in my (totally awesome) Erin Condren planner, I’m also posting it here. I want to be accountable to my training and if anyone finds my home and wants to see what I’ve done (or, haven’t done) and how to train for a half and/or full marathon, I think it would be great to have this available.

My current half marathon plan is the 2013 SeaWheeze plan, which you can find here. I’m doing the intermediate plan as I’ve ran a half before and was confident in my ability to tackle the distances.

My full marathon training plan will merge the SeaWheeze plan above with the Running Room plan. I’ll be making my own tweaks as I go (most likely reducing the number of run days to 4 from 5) but this is a great basis for training.

I hope to also start a series about the importance of tempo, steady, speed, hill and distance runs. It isn’t enough just to run, varying pace and speed is also really important in preparing for the loooooong distance of a marathon.

(Week one starts on Sunday July 21, 2013)

	Sun	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri	Sat
1	off	off	Exam marking	6k Tempo	4x Hills	Exam marking	8k Steady
2	23k Long	off	6k Tempo	5x Hills	8k Steady	Drive to Kelowna	6k Steady
3	26k Long	Drive home	6k Tempo	6x Hills	10k Steady	Fly to Van	RACE 21.1K
4	REST!	Fly home	6k Tempo	7x Hills	10k Steady	off	6k Steady
5	29k Long	off	6k Tempo	8x Hills	10k Steady	off	6k Steady
6	29k Long	off	6k Tempo	9x Hills	10k Steady	Drive to Kelowna	6k Steady
7	32k Long	Drive home	6k Tempo	10x Hills	10k Steady	off	6k Steady
8	23k Long	off	6k Tempo	10k Speed	10k Steady	off	6k Steady
9	29k Long	off	6k Tempo	10k Speed	10k Steady	off Concert	6k Steady
10	32k Long	off	6k Tempo Hair cut	10k Speed	10k Steady	off	6k Steady
11	23k Long	off	6k Tempo	10k Speed	10k Steady	off	16k Race pace
12	6k Long	off	6k Race pace	10k Race pace	off	Fly to Kelowna	3k Steady
13	RACE DAY 42.2K	Fly home

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