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Two Half Marathons 7 weeks apart?

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  • TriLifter
    TriLifter Posts: 1,283 Member
    Depends on if you're "racing" both, and your recovery time. I think 7 weeks is plenty if you are planning on racing them (and I mean racing as in all out pukefest and want to die after). I'm doing a fairly concentrated amount of HMs, but I'm not "racing" them all - I've got A races and B races. The B races are being done as easy training runs for free vacation time or as a favor for someone.

    Great, thanks for the input. I would like to "race" both...but I'm not sure about the all-out pukefest part haha. Best of luck with your schedule of copious amounts of races :-)

    Solution: Don't eat first (I always run fasted). Then you only have to worry about dry-heaving for half an hour :laugh:
  • dixiech1ck
    dixiech1ck Posts: 769 Member
    Strength training is key also with your runs. Don't forget to insert some cardio other than just running as well as some simple weight training, lunges, sit ups, push ups, upper and lower body.
  • davemunger
    davemunger Posts: 1,139 Member
    If you really want to kill your halfs, do long runs even longer than 13. Like in the 17-18 range. If you have that kind of a mileage base, the recovery will be just 1-2 weeks. So yeah, two halfs in 7 weeks is fine, provided you have a sufficient base.

    OTOH if you are undertrained, race #1 will be bad and race #2 will be worse.

    Thanks for your feedback, Dave. I really want to do well on my halfs, so hopefully I can get my mileage up that much. Right now, my *weekly* mileage is only about 20 miles...so I have a long way to go.

    Ah, so first order of business is gradually getting that weekly mileage up. Once you're up to around 30 miles a week then you can start increasing the length of the long runs.

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