Running Room Training Tips
Week 2: Building a Base
My Marathon and Half Marathon programs for the BMO Vancouver Marathon become progressively more difficult each week. Successful adaptation comes as a result of intelligent progressive overload. This progressive overload combined with rest days improves your muscular skeletal and cardiovascular systems as you become a marathoner.
The hard days challenge you, the easy days provide you rest and allows for regeneration. Hard days are the hill runs, tempo runs, and speed and long run days. The balance of the schedule is either an off day or recovery run day. Recovery runs are completed with a relaxed recovery pace. The long run is run about a 1-1 ½ minute per mile slower than your planned marathon goal pace. Scheduling in rest days is every bit as important as the tougher stuff.
Periodization is a build up in total mileage and in the long run distance, followed by a cutback week. Following this easy week, we build up the long run and the total distance. These periods of build up in mileage followed by a recovery week, rejuvenate you and prepare you for the next build up.
Presented by John Stanton, the founder of Running Room.
Marathon
Sun |
Mon |
Tues |
Wed |
Thurs |
Fri |
Sat |
Total |
| 10 LSD Run/Walk |
Off | 6 Tempo |
10 Tempo |
6 Steady Run |
Off | 6 Steady Run |
38 |
Pace Schedule |
Long Run (LSD) |
Steady Run |
Tempo Hills |
Speed |
Race |
Race (Walk-Adjusted) |
To Complete |
8:37-9:37 | 8:37 | 7:48 | 6:51 | 7:49 | 7:36 |
All distances in KMs. Run-Walk Interval = 10 min. to 1min. Hills are a distance of 600m.
Half Marathon
Sun |
Mon |
Tues |
Wed |
Thurs |
Fri |
Sat |
Total |
| Off | Off | Off | 3 Steady Run |
3 Steady Run |
Off | 3 Steady Run |
9 |
Pace Schedule |
Long Run (LSD) |
Steady Run |
Tempo Hills |
Speed |
Race |
Race (Walk-Adjusted) |
To Complete |
9:29-10:33 | 9:29 | 8:37 | 7:36 | 8:32 | 8:21 |
All distances in KMs. Run-Walk Interval = 10 min. to 1min. Hills are a distance of 400m.