Sub three hour marathon effort - The training plan - (1 of 3)
As I've been doing a half marathon each weekend for the last year or so, I thought I should take the next step and enter a marathon. So I swapped my Yorkshire 10 mile place for a Yorkshire Marathon place. It's in 14 weeks' time. I've spent a few hours looking at training plans online. I've spoken to some good club runners to pick their brains. ...and here's my training plan below... 14 week marathon plan Key points : Overall goal - sub 3hr marathon. But if I don't get it not to beat myself up about it. Aim for the ceiling and all that. I want to keep doing other races throughout the summer - marathon doesn't top trump everything else Not to go too crazy on the pace - just build up slowly to 3hr long runs and understand what energy intake I need Get used to 'race pace' the two weekends leading up to the run (but at shorter distance) Do first two hours on the day at 4:10/km pace (would be 2hrs56) and then try hardest to continue for third hour know