Question:
I have some questions and concerns
concerning my curring running plan.
I am now following a mileage buildup
schedule from State of the Art Marathon
Training.
Here are the weekly miles:
14, 15, 16, 12, 17, 18, 20, 13, 22,
24, 26, 15, 28, 30, 32, 17, 34, 35,
19.
Here are the weekly percentage changes:
+7%, +7%, -25%, +6%, +6%, +11%, -35%,
+10%, +9%, +8%, -42%, +8%, +7%, +
7%, +3%, -74%, -46%.
At the end of the 19th week you continue
to hold your training levels until
the marathon is 4 months away. Once
you reach the 10-mile mark of your
long run, you can then alternate your
long run sequence weekly as follows:
8, 9, 10, and then 6-mile long runs.
When your planned marathon is 4 months
away, you follow the schedule.
The marathon training schedule weekly
miles are as follows:
34, 36, 18, 38, 41, 43, 20, 42, 38,
22, 43, 38, 24, 46, 36, 30, 22, marathon.
The weekly long runs are as follows:
10, 12, 6, 14, 16, 18, 6, 20, 14,
7, 21, 14, 8, 22, 12, 14, 10, marathon.
Has anyone here followed this plan?
Answer:
My interpretaion from reading the
schedule is that the point of this
program is to prepare someone who's
undertrained for an 800m race to run
a marathon.
It's not possible to get in 20 mile
runs and train consistently without
having some 40 mile weeks, so the
only way to stay at an average of
30 miles per week or so with such
a schedule is to have a lot of week-to-week
variation in volume.
Keep in mind that a week is an arbitrary
way to divide up time anyway, and
for the purpose of marathon training,
where you cycle the lengths of the
long runs, it's not a very good one.
Most marathon training programs are
divided into microcycles consisting
of 2-4 weeks.
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