Marathon Training

This page provides an overview of my training. This will show what I am doing to get up to 42.2km race distance.

Week Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
1 Rest 3 3 3 Rest 6 Cross
2 Rest 3 3 3 Rest 7 Cross
3 Rest 3 4 3 Rest 5 Cross
4 Rest 3 4 3 Rest 9 Cross
5 Rest 3 5 3 Rest 10 Cross
6 Rest 3 5 3 Rest 7 Cross
7 Rest 3 6 3 Rest 12 Cross
8 Rest 3 6 3 Rest 13 Cross
9 Rest 3 7 4 Rest 10 Cross
10 Rest 3 7 4 Rest 15 Cross
11 Rest 4 8 4 Rest 16 Cross
12 Rest 4 8 5 Rest 12 Cross
13 Rest 4 9 5 Rest 18 Cross
14 Rest 5 9 5 Rest 14 Cross
15 Rest 5 10 5 Rest 20 Cross
16 Rest 5 8 4 Rest 12 Cross
17 Rest 4 6 3 Rest 8 Cross
18 Rest 3 4 2 Rest Rest Race

These are in miles directly from Hal Higdon’s site. I may get around to adjusting them to kms.

The weeks I’ve completed are in BOLD. I’ll updates these in the next few days.

Marathon Training Tracking

Below is how I’m Tracking with Heart Rate, Pace and “expected” Marathon Timing. Clearly the timing is spurious at best as I will not run a Marathon in 4hr 30 mins. But I like analysing like this to see how it manages itself as the training continues.

Heart Rate Progress
Date Distance Avg HR
 Max HR
 Avg Pace
24/1/10 4.09 161 185 5.37
24/1/10 5.59 158 172 6.32
26/1/10 5.75 156 176 6.29
31/1/10 6.64 141 172 6.32
3/2/10 4.70 143 153 6.08
7/2/10 7.61 150 163 6.26
8/2/10 5.25 144 156 6.11
10/2/10 6.69 146 157 6.28
11/2/10 5.13 144 162 6.13
13/2/10 14.26 150 163 6.21
15/2/10 5.09 143 157 6.10
17/2/10 5.06 139 152 6.19
20/2/10 16.15 150 160 6.40
23/2/10 5.04 152 166 6.31
26/2/10 5.37 149 166 5.56
27/2/10 11.02 147 161 6.09
Totals/Avgs 113.44 148.3125 163.8125 6.12625
Est MarathonTime (mins) 258.53
Est Marathon Time (hh:mm) 4.31

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