Think Through Earlier Picking Your Marathon Training Schedule

When it comes to trying to complete a marathon there is a lot to consider in your preparation to ensure that you say on track to achieve your goal. It is a monumental achievement for most people to complete a continuous run over 26.2 Miles (42.2 KM). It will take you in excess of 2 hours and for most of us between 3 and 5 hours. That is why; it takes meticulous preparation over several weeks in order to cope with the goal of completing a marathon. For beginners your training should involve a minimum of a continuous long run, several easy runs and repetition efforts over the course of 16 weeks. For in intermediate and advanced runners speed track sessions and hills will assist you achieve your time goal and strengthen your body for the race.

If you're new to running your best to pick a training schedule that is simple to understand, enjoyable and varied, to keep you stimulated, and has been prepared by a coach that has completed a marathon themselves. You're also best to find a schedule that has time goals for each session so that you know exactly what time you need to run for each session in order to achieve your marathon goal time. Quite often those new to marathon training schedule don't understand the value of rest and or slow running and unless the coach or website advices you the importance of these factors in your training quite often you can end up over training, which will cause fatigue and injury!, something you need to avoid at all costs so that you can complete your marathon strong and healthy come race day.

A good guide to finding a reputable marathon training schedule from the internet is the program will have good supporting material; it will be tailored to a time specific goal and has the variety to keep you interested. Generally speaking you don't need more than 16 weeks to prepare for a marathon, but if you’re coming from no running at all and you have more than 16 weeks to race day take a look at the first week of training and start today slowly building up to meet the 16 weeks out point at 100%. IE if you have 19 weeks to go to race day and the first session of the 16 week marathon training schedule says run 4 Miles then start with 1 mile 19 weeks out, 2 miles 18 weeks out, 3 miles at 17 weeks out, then you will start the 16 week program ready to cope with the 4 Miles from day one.

Another word of advice, the most important factor in completing your goal of running a marathon apart from being consistent and dedicated to the training itself, is the rest required, your body needs to recover and absorb the workload and you should try to get at least 8 hours a sleep per night.

By: Adon K Smither

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Adon Smither is an adventurous person who enjoys running very much. He adores about serving others in learning running and workout and is happy to share his marathon training schedule instructions with all racers at his marathon training site www.marathontrainingschedule.net.