6 weeks for half marathon training?
Discussion
I think I know the likely answer to this one, but bear with me ...
Current training for the english indoor rowing championships (not likely to be that fast, but hopefully sub 7 minutes), and the training (primarily rowing, but with some spinning classes and some running for warmups) is definitely going well. Legs are feeling better than they've done since my late 20s (now 43).
But I'm wondering what to target after the rowing competition, and some friends have mentioned about the Reading half marathon. Which is about 6 weeks after the eirc.
6 weeks to swap from doing 90% of my cardio on a concept 2 to doing lots (and lots) of running. With the intention of doing the half in under 2 hours.
I know I can easily do a 4-5 hour bike ride, have been regularly doing 1+ hour rows, a gym challenge months back involved me doing 15k rowing and 8-9k running every day .... but I have never done anything over a 10k run.
Possible? Insane? Ridiculously easy?
Current training for the english indoor rowing championships (not likely to be that fast, but hopefully sub 7 minutes), and the training (primarily rowing, but with some spinning classes and some running for warmups) is definitely going well. Legs are feeling better than they've done since my late 20s (now 43).
But I'm wondering what to target after the rowing competition, and some friends have mentioned about the Reading half marathon. Which is about 6 weeks after the eirc.
6 weeks to swap from doing 90% of my cardio on a concept 2 to doing lots (and lots) of running. With the intention of doing the half in under 2 hours.
I know I can easily do a 4-5 hour bike ride, have been regularly doing 1+ hour rows, a gym challenge months back involved me doing 15k rowing and 8-9k running every day .... but I have never done anything over a 10k run.
Possible? Insane? Ridiculously easy?
Given what training you do, I think that it will be no problem for you to run under two hours if you do a reasonable amount of training.
My first half marathon was 2 hours and six minutes from 3 training runs, as someone who exercised fairly regularly (but not running).
My first half marathon was 2 hours and six minutes from 3 training runs, as someone who exercised fairly regularly (but not running).
Edited by fandango_c on Wednesday 12th December 14:05
Sub-2 for a half is only just under the hour for 10k. Any reasonably fit person should be able to handle that pace. Assuming you can run at that pace with no problem, then I'd work on upping your longest run to get confidence you can handle the distance. If you can get up to a 10 mile run in under 90mins then the half should be fine.
ewenm said:
Sub-2 for a half is only just under the hour for 10k. Any reasonably fit person should be able to handle that pace. Assuming you can run at that pace with no problem, then I'd work on upping your longest run to get confidence you can handle the distance. If you can get up to a 10 mile run in under 90mins then the half should be fine.
My best 5k was around 26 minutes, then a 10k scaled perfectly to about 54 minutes (had to slow down at the end to take a call from my step son who'd pulled out half way with an injury). That was when I was a 20 per day smoker .... Reckon I'm going to at least do the training, actually doing the event will depend on my being able to swap the weekends I have my son overnight. The ex wife will probably be quite supportive, as she'll follow my reasoning that it'll encourage our son to get into running/training seeing daddy doing rowing/running, and mummy playing squash.
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