Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 382, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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starting marathon training

Lindsay22
Lindsay22
Posts: 129
Joined: 2004/12/09
United States
2007/02/23, 10:38 AM
I plan to run a 1/2 marathon Memorial Day weekend, this will be my first. I'm about to start the 12 week training next week...any advice?? I'm a bit nervous, I hope my body will handle it.
bryce.kim
bryce.kim
Posts: 20
Joined: 2006/05/05
United States
2007/02/26, 11:18 AM
I have run a couple half marathons and am currently training for a full marathon in may. I highly suggested buying the book " THe Complete book of running for women" by claire kowalchik. It has been a great help for me. THe training schedules are for anything from 5k to a full marathon. They are split into 3 different schedules so it depends how hard you want to train.
I purchased mine off of amazon.
Hope that helps. Good luck and don't be nervous, a half marathon is totally doable! If you can run 10 miles comfortably you can run then half no prob. That's what I figure anyways!
gangstershoes
gangstershoes
Posts: 641
Joined: 2005/05/27
United States
2007/02/27, 12:48 PM
halhigdon.com is a pretty good site to look at.
Concentration on proper hydration, and energy stores when doing longer runs though.
Good shoes.......