TRAIN FOR A MARATHON
(on 3 runs a week )
Marathon training is a big commitment, but it doesn’t need to take over your life. If you find a plan that works for you, you can fit it into your life rather than moulding your life around it. Our plan lets you fit in the miles you need to cover as well as guarding against overtraining and injury niggles and still finding time for other exercises that combine well with running Words and plans
by: Laura Fountain
Use your long runs to practise your race-day kit and nutrition
This is a three-runs-a-week training plan, but don’t be fooled into thinking it’s a shortcut plan. However many training runs you commit to each week, the truth is that you can’t cut corners when it comes to marathon training. Whichever way you swing it, you still need to do lots of running but the benefit of squeezing the miles into fewer runs is that you get more recovery days and may find you’re able to do a little more in each session than you would if you were training over four runs.