Conquer The Marathon - A live Talk With Dublin Front Runners

I always go for like a 16-week training block just because it takes a little bit of pressure off you.

It gives you a little bit more time, a little bit of wiggle room.

A lot of people pick up a cold or flu or some point during it or maybe just a little bit of a niggle that will need you to back off.

So if you have 16 weeks, it just gives you a little bit more of a buffer.

I think it's always good.

And the caveat with that is, Some people, I know people who literally don't do any training and then they start their training on 12 weeks before or 14 weeks before, 16 weeks before.

I would say that's probably not the best idea in terms of health and fitness and certain performance.

You want to be coming into your 16-week with some sort of a base built, if possible.

Does

that make sense, everybody? Like I said, you're going to have about 16 weeks lead-in.

And you will have had some sort of a base.

You guys are running clubs.

I'm sure everybody's doing a little bit of running week on week, building up to it.

And you're kind of thinking, oh yeah, I got to start going.

I got to start adding the mileage, adding the volume.

So to start with, your first three or four weeks into the program, you really should be just an extension of what you've been doing so far, with just a little bit of specificity put in.

So when it comes to marathon training, The main difference between what you're doing kind of week in, week out through the year is that now you're going to start adding some specificity to your training in order for you to be able to build up the mileage week on week.

And you hear some people talk about this kind of 10%, you know, you should never add more than 10%.

That's kind of a...

It's kind of a good, simple way to think about it, but it's not very specific to a lot of people.

I'm probably running at the moment...

I'm doing about 40 to 50K a week.

I know I could certainly jump to 70 within a week and it wouldn't make a difference because I've been running so long and I have so much volume in my legs.

I've been doing it for so long.

Other people, if you're only doing, if somebody's just been doing 20 or 25K a week, I think they could probably add more than two and a half K in one of those weeks.

I always go for like a 16-week training block just because it takes a little bit of pressure off you.

It gives you a little bit more time, a little bit of wiggle room.

A lot of people pick up a cold or flu or some point during it or maybe just a little bit of a niggle that will need you to back off.

So if you have 16 weeks, it just gives you a little bit more of a buffer.

I think it's always good.

And the caveat with that is, Some people, I know people who literally don't do any training and then they start their training on 12 weeks before or 14 weeks before, 16 weeks before.

I would say that's probably not the best idea in terms of health and fitness and certain performance.

You want to be coming into your 16-week with some sort of a base built, if possible.

Does

that make sense, everybody? Like I said, you're going to have about 16 weeks lead-in.

And you will have had some sort of a base.

You guys are running clubs.

I'm sure everybody's doing a little bit of running week on week, building up to it.

And you're kind of thinking, oh yeah, I got to start going.

I got to start adding the mileage, adding the volume.

So to start with, your first three or four weeks into the program, you really should be just an extension of what you've been doing so far, with just a little bit of specificity put in.

So when it comes to marathon training, The main difference between what you're doing kind of week in, week out through the year is that now you're going to start adding some specificity to your training in order for you to be able to build up the mileage week on week.

And you hear some people talk about this kind of 10%, you know, you should never add more than 10%.

That's kind of a...

It's kind of a good, simple way to think about it, but it's not very specific to a lot of people.

I'm probably running at the moment...

I'm doing about 40 to 50K a week.

I know I could certainly jump to 70 within a week and it wouldn't make a difference because I've been running so long and I have so much volume in my legs.

I've been doing it for so long.

Other people, if you're only doing, if somebody's just been doing 20 or 25K a week, I think they could probably add more than two and a half K in one of those weeks.