Designing a Running Program

Since one of my long-term goals is the rather ambitious sounding ‘run a marathon’ I need to start thinking about training properly. A number of people have recommended to me Hal Higdon’s marathon training programs, and one of them looks absolutely ideal. It’s the Novice Supreme Marathon Program, which takes 30 weeks to complete and the first week has runs of 1.5,3,1.5,3 miiles, which I am definitely capable of.

In order to get a feeling for how the run lengths on each day of the week (Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat are running days) evolve throughout the training scheme I drew a quick graph. I always prefer to see information graphically, and maybe this will be a useful for somebody else…