Half Marathon Training Schedule : Long Runs Vs Short Runs

There are two important runs that should be included in your marathon training. The first one of these is what is called the long run, and this should be done at least once every week to ten days, this all depends on your marathon training schedule. You should run up to 20 miles gradually from about 6 miles in a period of 2 months.

You should always rememmber that it takes about three or four weeks for your body to adopt to stress. So you may want to increase the number of miles you do every 3 weeks and increase by maybe two miles. When you run your long run, you are not required to time it, just go out there and run the full goal distance. The very next day after your long run, it is important that you do some really light jogging to help you recover.

The second type of run that is very important is your marathon pace type of run. This run is when you run a maximum of 8 miles but in marathon pace. Even with this you want to gradually work your way to the ideal length. So you could start at 2 miles and increase that every three weeks overtime. Make sure that you are relaxed while doing this marathon pace run, and also drink water as you run. This is done to emulate the actual marathon running that you will be doing.

Those are the two most important runs that you should incoorporate into your training, all the other runs you do are just easy runs meant for your recovery you should not really be concerned with the number of miles that you run for these recovery runs. You can effectively run three to four miles on each of those recovery days. If you have any other questions you can get more marathon training tips at my website.