June 13 marks the beginning of the traditional 16 week training time for a marathon. Although some more serious runners may be doing 18 weeks or longer.
Are you ready to officially start training? If this is your first marathon, you’ll want to be comfortable running 6 miles by June 13. Not there yet? Continue to slowly up your mileage. You don’t want to increase your mileage more than 10% a week, to prevent injury. If you are currently running 15 miles a week, you can add 1.5 miles next week, either in one run or spread out over all of your runs. Likewise, if you run 120 minutes a week, add 12 minutes next week. You can do the math... I hope!
Now onto our blog... We will be posting twice a week. Tuesdays, Jennifer will post running advice, including nutrition, injury prevention, running gear, etc. Thursdays, I will post training information and new workouts to add to your regimen. Feel free to comment on any posts with your own lessons learned or questions you have about running!
Next Thursday - training plans.
Happy running!
~Genevieve
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