Subject: RE: First tri season done, training for a marathon, need guidanceI'm kind of in the same boat. I finished my season on 10/15 (IM Lou ) and did Choo 70.3 in May. I want to run a marathon in March.
I'll continue to swim 3X/wk with masters......and do a couple trainer sessions on the bike/wk.....but the focus will obviously have to be on the marathon. I've never run one (marathon ). That sounds weird, since i just did an IM.....but, an open marathon is different beast (I know enough to know that ). I can't imagine going into one with the attitude (I'm not knocking you.......as we're all different ) of "I just want to finish". You could finish one, right now, probably. Running only 3X/wk ....and getting in your long runs - sounds like a recipe for injury, to me. I'm going with 5X/wk, topping out at around 45 MPW. That's "intermediate".
I'll switch to tris, after the marathon. The bike will come back, pretty quickly. I plan to do a late-season HIM, too.
Good luck.
Just for S's and giggles, why do you want to do the marathon? Just a bucket list thing? |