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Who does Sunday to Saturday?!?!?! :D B)

There is such a thing as too much rest during taper. It's important to keep the legs moving, to do some faster running too. Coming off higher mileage to a weeks that are 2/3 and then less than 1/2, you will still be recovering while keeping sharp for the race. @kristinegift, if anything, I think your final week might be a…

Glycogen depletion doesn't typically happen until between 90 and 120 minutes of continuous exercise in most recreational runners and much later than that in well trained distance runners.

At the risk of sounding elitist, our definitions of a "successful marathon" are probably different. You may define your experience as a success and that's great if that's what you set out to do. To me, a successful marathon is one that is run as fast as you can run it based on your current level of fitness. With your…

I can't recommend and specific plans, but strength training during a marathon training cycle should be designed to keep you healthy so you are able to run all the miles in the plan. Weights won't help you cover 26.2, more running will. Good luck on #2 (no, not that #2) :)

And this, in a nutshell, is why we run the easy miles easy. Good luck at the marathon! Can't wait to hear about your results.

Obviously you are a Galloway fan boy and that's fine. It works for some people, including you, and that's fantastic. I've stated before and I'll state again, that I am not a fan of this methodology. I don't have the time nor the inclination to go back through all the research that I have done that has lead me to this…

More miles, more miles, more miles.

Looks that way! :)

If you zone out and start to slow down, then the first part of the long run was too fast. The long run should naturally get faster the further you go. This is for a normal long run. A fast finish long run is a totally different animal.

I've already gone on and on about this ad infinitum. I just don't feel like rehashing it given the limited amount of time I have to dedicated to this forum. It's not baggage, it doesn't require me to haul it around. My opinions of Galloway are shared by many. That was my point. Is it a good plan to go from couch to…

Well, everything EXCEPT that part. :smiley:

Exactly the same for me. We must be singing from the same hymn sheet. :)

I know you were presenting Galloway's findings. I have a lot of issues with his plans and how he markets them and himself. There are many far more accomplished coaches than I that have had these discussions with him. I'd be wasting my breath talking about statistic, which can be massaged to tell just about any story that…

I'm a solo artist. I run alone. I don't want to compromise my workout to be social.

The reason that the last 10K is the hardest is because that's when most runners are starting to deal with glycogen depletion.

I disagree with half of this statement. The only thing that will prevent you from hitting "the wall" is having the proper fitness to go 26.2 and by running at a pace that you can sustain. Running 26+ miles in training has nothing to do with this.

It's important that you don't try to build volume and intensity at the same time. If your speed work is 10% of your weekly mileage and you working on increasing the volume, it's a good idea to keep that speedwork at whatever mileage 10% equates to instead of keeping it at the same percentage.

Bottle and Cork 10 Miler in Dewey Beach, DE. 12 OA, 3rd in AG in 1:07:02 (6:43 pace).

Bottle and Cork 10 Miler in Dewey Beach, DE. Low 70s and humid. It's going to be a sweat fest! Wooo!!!

For your first marathon, you would get more benefit from just doing an easy run and tacking on 10 to 15 minutes to what the plan says.

This.

Nothing over 22 miles or 3 hours and 15 minutes. How many popular marathon training plans, like Higdon, call for more than 20?

Once you've been there, you don't need to go back up as gradually. Take bigger steps, but listen to your body and take a cut back week every 3rd or 4th week.

You've been running two weeks and your goal is a marathon? How about finding out if you even like running first? It takes years to physically prepare for a marathon. Train for 5k,10k. Run a few half marathons. A full marathon is a huge commitment and is not to be taken lightly.

I write plans by distance. I feel like giving an athlete a plan that says "run x minutes" gives them the opportunity to say "well, if I just run a little faster, I can do it y miles in that time". Then they end up running easy runs too fast and the workouts suffer along with the overall training. If I say run y miles, that…

Just keep running. Don't feel compelled to run a marathon. It's not just two halfs. Completely different beast.

No. Don't. You are heavy and sluggish because your body is recovering. It needs one thing. Time. I won't even go into the cleanse thing.

First question that you need to answer is can I get my mileage up to 25 miles per week in 24 weeks without being injured. If you can, then you could consider a 16 week marathon training plan.

C. I only cross train with alternative cardio if I am unable to run.