Marathon Tips

Even amateur and fun-runners whose only ambition is to finish the marathon need to put in some serious hard work and training. The advice of the London marathon medical team is that you should be able to run 15 miles comfortably three weeks prior to your race.

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There is plenty of good advice available about how runners should train. It is handy to learn a few new words from the long-distance runner’s vocabulary. I will be featuring a new word each week as part of my blog posts along with some training tips.

Periodisation

Basically this is the one-day-hard, one-day-easy training idea. This is based on the fact that muscles need to recover after training and some down-time really helps this to occur. As the runner becomes more experienced, they usually increase this to one week easy one week hard, then by month and so on.