I am running the flm and cant make my mind up what schedule to follow, when should i taper my long runs and what distance should i cover a week and what length should be my longest run and how many times do i need to run that distance. Last time i followed schedules for the flm, i felt i hadnt done enough preparation and found it extremely hard going after 15 miles anybody got any ideas on this subject please.
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Which schedules have you been looking at?
Take a scan at the following and see if any of them look good to you. I think they're all slightly different.
Runners World UK
Runners World US
Hal Higdon
There's also the 4 days a week schedule in the current edition of Runners World magazine.
I used the US Runners World site Beginners' schedule for my first marathon earlier in the year. I followed it, and it seemed to work ok. I didn't break any records, but nor did I hit the wall.
I hope something here is at least a useful starting point for you. Good luck
I end up doing more longer runs than on these schedules (e.g. 2 x 15 miles a week plus one or two short fast ones). My first FLM was on just 2 big runs a week, just at weekends, and was close to my pb.
Hope that's not too disruptive.
I also agree with Cougie. This time I'll be aiming to run x 5 per week, but the only one that seems to me to be absolutely vital is the long one. With the rest I'm happy to chop and change a bit as long as I'm not actually doing less than the basic schedule suggests. Sometimes the Mon-Fri runs look a little short to me.
Good luck with it all, anyway! I haven't fixed on a plan yet either, except for my ever increasing long runs
I was meant to be following a 14 week training plan that had me running on 69 occasions.
I managed 42 ! So that's 3 sessions a week, and only 60% of what I was meant to do.
Sheesh - if I can find time for the other 40% of sessions I'll be kicking Paulas ass, except she's a girl and I won't be in her category. Well either that, or I'll be really injured and over trained !
Very poor performance me.