If this is your first marathon, the planning will include mentally preparing yourself, getting the okay from your doctor, building up support from friends and family, and most importantly finding a training schedule that will work for you.
Most marathon training schedules require around eighteen weeks in order to be fully prepared. It's important to have enough time to build up your endurance and running miles slowly so that you don't suffer from injuries. Having a training schedule that allows you to slowly build up your endurance will give your body time to adapt and adjust at a comfortable pace. However, most schedules are set-up based on the assumption that when you begin you are already relatively fit.
Most will expect that you regularly run three to five times a week and that you can run an average of six miles comfortably. Thus, it is important that you have plenty of time prior to starting your marathon training schedule to become comfortable with running.
At least two months of running regularly is usually recommended before beginning a marathon training schedule. That way you have provided your body, and especially your muscles, with the base they need to continue to get stronger as you complete the marathon training schedule. If you push yourself too much within a short amount of time you will run a greater risk of injuring yourself and not being able to perform well in the marathon.
Most marathon training schedules have you running five days a week for eighteen weeks. Four of the five days are usually easy to moderate runs ranging in distances from three to five miles. Those runs will fluctuate somewhat throughout the marathon training schedule, but the most important run is the weekly "long run". Every week you will increase your long run so that you can get used to pushing yourself further. You will want to approach these long runs at a safe and comfortable pace.
A good marathon training schedule will start you out at a long run of around six miles and increase every couple of weeks until you reach a long run of twenty miles. It is best to alternate your twenty mile "long runs" with "long runs" of about thirteen miles between week eleven and week fifteen of your marathon training schedule. It is then very important to taper off the few weeks before the race so that you give your body time to recover and be prepared.
Following a marathon training schedule is probably the most important thing you can do while preparing yourself for a marathon to ensure that you complete your goal successfully.
Joe Donovan is an avid runner and operates the website, http://www.MarathonMethod.com. He is also author of the book, Marathon Method: The Essential Guide to Training for Your First Marathon available at http://www.MarathonMethod.com. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Joe_Donovan
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