Pfitzinger Marathon Training - Articles
Marathon Training?
by
Tekko
Over the course of the past few years since I have been involved with the RL TNR, on and off I met people who have signed up for a full marathon and who do not have any inkling of how to go about training for it. In fact some of these people do not even intend to train for it. When they told me they were just going to run the full marathon and with ...
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A Marathon Of A Marathon Training List
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Peter Washkowitz
One of the things I love most about running is that it really involves very little thinking. Whereas a 'sport' like golf requires seemingly hundreds of different things to be aligned in order to hit a good shot (i.e., arms straight or bents, legs spread a specific distance apart, head down, etc...), running merely requires you to move forward at a ...
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Marathon training
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Dr. Gabe M.
Many runners have the mistaken impression that they have to run a lot of miles every week to be able to run fast in a marathon. Most will find that running too many miles slows them down. To run fast in races, you have to run very fast in practice. However, on the day after you run very fast, your muscles will feel sore. If you run fast while you a ...
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Training for two marathons in a month
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Perry R.
For frequent followers of this blog you undoubtedly know that I recently participated in the 2006 Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront marathon. Here is the training program that I created and tried my best to follow. I started June 26, 2006 and am right now in the 15th week of training. Prior to the Toronto marathon, [...]Filed under: Joggling | No Co ...
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The Start of Joggling Marathon Training
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Perry R.
Today is the second day of my training. My personalized training scheduled called for a steady 5 mile run. The hardest part was skipping the basketball game that was going on on the court below me. I really enjoy playing basketball. But I’m in training mode now. No more b-ball [...]Filed under: Chicago, Joggling, Joggling life, Marathons ...
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Announcing a Marathon Training Plan
by
Allen
I've added to my site a training plan for those who want to run a marathon or a half marathon and enjoy that experience by not suffering pain or extreme tiredness during and after the race. Many training plans are designed to get a runner ready in just a few weeks to run a marathon, and in meeting that goal of a short training period, those plans r ...
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Joggler Trains for the Philadelphia Marathon
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Perry R.
Fellow joggler Joe Salter and I are joggling the Philadelphia Marathon this fall and it promises to be great fun.
Check out this hilarious / inspiring video he did to chronicle his training. He actually shows off some pretty good joggling tricks.
Maybe I’ll have to create my own joggling video to show how my [...]
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FIRST Marathon Training Assessment
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Perry R.
While reading the excellent Half-Fast running blog, I noticed that Vanilla was going to try the FIRST marathon training program. This is a program in which you get to “run less often and still get faster”. It’s the 3-day a week marathon training program. Great concept.I decided to give it a go this year to improve my marathon t ...
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Marathon Training Plan for This Week
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Katherine H.
I really need to get my act together in terms of training for the marathon I will be running at the end of April. I need to run at least 18 miles for my long run by the middle of April, which will give me two weeks to taper. So for this week, this is what I need to do: Wed- 4 mile run Thurs -5 mile run Sat - 3 mile run Sun - 10 mile run I ran ...
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How much to train for a marathon
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Perry R.
Alright, when you lay out your marathon training program (or should I say “if”) it looks good on paper but will you really keep it up? If you are anything like me…you won’t. But you may get close. Here’s what I had hoped to run. Miles : 548 (882 K) Here’s what I actually ran. Miles : [...]Filed under: Jogg ...
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