Here is a link to my training plan for the
Disney World Marathon January 10, 2010!
Disney World Marathon Training
I broke each day of the week down like this:
Sunday: Rest day/Yoga or strength training
Monday: MP = Marathon Pace run
Tuesday: Hills or Speed work
Wednesday: Easy run
Thursday: Rest day/Strength
Friday: Easy run
Saturday: Long Run
I change my training programs around as I go along depending on how I feel. I totally believe you should listen to your body and pull back when you feel run down (no pun intended), overall fatigue or an injury coming on. So, I may skip a day here and there, or change up a hard run to an easier one 🙂 I hate speed work, so this program is challeging in that I am trying to do hills or speed every week.
For my first marathon training I began to get tendonitis in my foot about 2/3 of the way through the program. I immediately cut my running from 5 days to 4 days a week.
*I am going out of town for a week in September and I did include that in the training plan. I usually get pretty stressed when I miss training for a race, but I am not going to worry about it this time. It is a much needed break!
**Also, this training program is during Thanksgiving, Christmas and other life events so it may be necessary to move runs around to change it up in general. I will be updating my plan as we go along!
Everything looks great!!
Did we already cover that we’re both running the same marathon? I’m so excited!
Hm, for me the link doesn’t work 🙁
But I agree that it’s best to listen to your body…
Good plan. I don’t really have a plan as to what I do each day because then I feel obligated to do it. Instead I just have a blank excel sheet and I fill it in at the end of each day and I kind of just have a goal total mileage for the week’s end. Doing it this way for me has actually helped me increase my physical activity but I never feel pressured to run when I don’t want to
i like the plan! i also like how youre going to listen to your body, i don’t think i do that nearly enough
looks great! I’ll be doing my first full a couple weeks after the dis so I’ll be watching your training plan with mine! I’m psyched! 🙂