Oh and

you don't say how many runs you do a week. If 3, do something like:

Tuesday: fartlek
Thursday: steady run
Sunday: long run

If 4, do something like:

Tuesday: fartlek
Thursday: steady run
Friday: easy run
Sunday: long run

In time you could do other technical runs on the Tuesday - mix in tempo runs (which are really good for 10k/half running), hill sprints (which are brilliant near the start of a 10k/half training schedule), intervals (both short, fast ones and long, not so fast ones), pyramid runs, all sorts. But for a month or two stick to fartleks, mix the paces and distances up a bit, so push a bit harder for half a mile, recover, run fast for a hundred yards, recover, that kind of thing.

A lot of the n-week training plans will have you alternating tempos and intervals on the Tuesday run. That's because it works. Hill sprints are best in the weeks before you start one of those training plans as they help build the strength you'll need.

You don't need me to tell you to get proper shoes, warm up properly (dynamic stretches, squats, lunges), cool down properly (static stretches) and all that, but I'm probably going to anyway #nanny

If you can do 10k you can do a half. A full mara is more than twice as hard as a half as your glycogen goes quite early in the run and then you're relying on metabolising fat and other things to keep you going for quite a while. It's really worth all the effort and pain though. Keep a'troshing on :-)

Posted By: Old Man, Sep 6, 21:35:30