12-week Half Marathon Training - Articles
Half Marathon Training Progress
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Dr. Heather S.
There are 17 days until the half marathon. My longest run has been 11 miles, which I finished in two hours. That's a pace of 10:54. I felt great afterward. Now my goal is to get faster. I want to run the half marathon in 2:10; that's 9 minutes faster than my time almost 5 years ago when I last ran one. So, Mary has me doing speedwork and thin ...
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Half Marathon Training Schedule
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Emily
This is my training schedule for the Disney Princess Half Marathon I am running in March, 2010. I have 27weeks to prepare.Please note the following things about this schedule -the small numbers are miles run, the large numbers are cross-training minutesI am only scheduling 4 days a week, but hope to add 1-2 cross-training sessions a weekI will als ...
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Half marathon Training at the lakes
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FitthisGirl
I am less than one month away from my first half marathon!! I can't believe it--I am so excited!I am following the training program below, but have a tendency to miss one day during the week. The three most important runs are taken care of though: tempo, speed and long run. I am making it a priority also to get that strength training in! If you nee ...
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Seeking half marathon training advise
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Marathon Mommies !.
My time has come to start training for my half marathon! I have 14 weeks til April 18 and have not been running since November, so I'm hoping I'm not too out of shape to begin the traning plan I'm thinking to follow. This is my first time training for a half marathon, and even though I have done my research on training plans I thought I would stop ...
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Half Marathon Challenge: Mental Training
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Amy H.
It's easier to do hard things when you have friends to carry you along. That was the idea behind the Half Marathon, Full Challenge group and series - to have a group of like minded half marathon lovers join together to get through the Half Marathon Challenge. We have had 38 runners formally join in the challenge and many admitted lurker ...
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Training for Your First Half Marathon
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Cynthia S.
The biggest question most first time half marathon runners face when they look in the mirror is, "Can I do it?" Let's answer that right now. Yes, you can. Absolutely. There are a bevy of training programs out there to ensure you are well prepared-mentally and physically—for race day.Which program you pick depends on your goals and f ...
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Half Marathon Training: In the Final Stretch
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sdrunner
It’s been a while since I wrote a post about my half marathon training, the good thing is that I have still been running and training (for the most part). It’s not necessarily due to laziness, but I just had to attend to other very important things that were going on in my life, outside of running. It is fairly safe to say that I will b ...
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My tentative training strategy for my next half-marathon
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Allen
I've been thinking about my training between now and April 19, 2008. For the past six months, I've been focusing on increasing the speed of my LSD and recovery runs. I think I've been successful, because I've decreased my pace 1 1/2 minutes for my LSD runs and 1 minute for my recovery runs. However, I've intentionally let slip my ability to run 13 ...
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Training for PF Chang's Half Marathon.
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lcampbe79
I went for a “run” today. It was ok until I got by the grocery/fast food area and it smelled GROSS!!! I should have gotten up at 6:50am like I should have but I wanted to sleep a little longer. I’m doing the 30/30 training and I sort of messed up since I was gone for over the 30 minutes. I ended up going for almost 40 minutes ...
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Half Marathon Training: 50 Minute Run
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Jeff Irvin
As I have mentioned a few times Annie and I will be doing the Austin Half Marathon in February. We have been using a training plan from Runner's World to prepare us for this race. ( Click Here to see the plan). We are currently in Week 5 of this plan and the run for today called for 50 minutes at an easy pace. We woke up at 5am again to get this r ...
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