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mikacat · Coach

Marathons or Half Marathon questions

jah · Dooney & Bourke

Look up Jeff Galloway and Hal Higdon. Both are very famous distance runners (they both have written books and are frequent contributors to running magazines). One of Jeff Galloway's programs is the approved one for the Marine Corp Marathon and what I follow, so I recommend him.

In terms of time period, if you start now and think late July/August, you can do it. Jeff Galloway recommends 17 weeks. Here is the link to his half marathon training program:

http://www.jeffgalloway.com/training/half_marathon.html

-- Edited by jah at 02:20, 2006-04-04

shopgirl82 · Chanel

i think time is relative. my friend 24 yr. old friend ran the chicag marathon after doing a 4 month training program. she was a runner before she started the program. my dad took about a 12 months to run a half marathon. no real training program (although he gets about every running magazine and buys about every running book). he was also never a runner, in fact a stocky 56 yr. man.

i'm hardly going to call myself a runner, but i do read about it a lot and run a lot.

here are two websites that i like:

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_4/144.shtml (that link is directly to the half marathon training page).

and i'm a memeber of CARA which is chicago area runner's association. the CARA half marathon training program starts april 8th. i'm not exactly sure which suburb you are, but there's a CARA running club for just about every suburb. here's the link to the club page.

http://www.cararuns.org/running_clubs/index.html

those are really great resources for me. also, pm me if you have any questions, etc..

good luck, that's so exciting and it's really fun to have someone to run with, so good luck to your husband too.

ayo · Coach

I did my first marathon last year (hoping to do a couple more this year)

and I echo Jah's recommendations.

I trained for about 6 months... using the Jeff Galloway program and it was awesome. I didn't suffer any injuries and I finished with a pretty ok time.

feel free to PM me with any questions..

also when it's time to ask for donations for your run please PM me..I really would love to donate :)

Irene · Dooney & Bourke

Thanks for posting this. I am not doing a marathon but I am doing the 3-day breast cancer walk (60 miles total - yikes) in October in Penssylvania. I could use some help myself.