HOW TO - RUN A MARATHON WITH LOW MILEAGE TRAINING

RUN A MARATHON WITH LOW MILEAGE TRAINING

Marathon training was a lifestyle training for me as it was really hard for me to find more than 90 minutes for the training in a day.

My life is surrounded with liabilities. A working mom always running around with kid’s studies and their sports training.

Experts and their plan scared me as it said 30-35 K of training at least 4-5 times to run a marathon else it will injure me. That means at least 4-5 hours of training at a go which was not possible for me to afford.

I had made up my plan to switch to 42 K as I somehow felt I have that strength within me.

Despite of me being a victim of low BP, where people had advised me to even switch off half marathon and adopt 10K run, I had made up my mind (a little scared though) to go for it.

The existing plans were confusing me.
Then I decided to make my own plan.

And the plan had :

Strength workout
Back to back long runs – morning evening morning (if you cant run at a go, you can manage to train for same duration at other times of the day.

So my training started.
15K morning
10K evening
again10K morning

I repeated this for 3 weeks.

That gave me a mileage of 35K with a bit of recovery.

I added a balanced time of bodyweight training and stretching to my routine.

And yes this was a plan which I would be able to sustain as I wish to run many more marathon and wanted to adopt a plan that I can sustain without ignoring my work, family and foremost my kids.

Believe me, I was up and running the day next to my Full Marathon. I went back to training with my run/walk and strength workout routine.

In the race, I ran very strong till 32K . after that I went slow and dis-balanced only because of poor traffic control not because of the lack of my strength or will power. 

You can very well make it from my pic at the finish line. The last 2K when I knew the route and there was no traffic, I ran very strong.

So today, I am very happy that I have formulated a method of training that I will be able to sustain and adopt at the same time remain injury free.

J