I'm planning on running my first marathon next year and have been looking at the various training schedules available.
The problem I have is that I'm a shiftworker, I work 12 hour shifts (days and nights) and work a lot of weekends too.
Most of the training plans I've seen are pretty inflexible, if anyone could offer any advice from their own experiences on how to adapt these plans to fit in around very unsociable work hours it would be much appreciated.
Andy
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Good Luck
Andy
(Sounds good to me personally!)
There was a longish reply but the gist was you change a 7 day training plan to suit a 10 day work pattern.
Key points made were:
Train harder on days off
In this case rest 1 of the 6 off days
Fit in hard sessions on days off : intervals,tempos
Do the other sessions on free days left: long easy runs,steady mid length runs.
Also on the 4 work days,try and run twice even if its a 15 minute freshen up.
(sometimes when I'm limited in time I do a 2 mile run flat out,changed,back and showered in less than 30 mins)
Having never worked shifts,although my old boss thought 7am to 9pm was normal, I hope this helps.