Hal Higdon's MARATHON GUIDE!

Read on the weep guys... This is the training schedule that we should be following... Don't follow this, and i GUARANTEE you that the marathon day will be very very painful....... (like all my marathons, cos i don't follow it, heh...)

PEOPLE DIFFER GREATLY IN ABILITY, but ideally before starting a marathon program, you should have been running about a year. You should be able to comfortably run distances between 3 and 6 miles. You should be training 3-5 days a week, averaging 15-25 miles a week. You should have run an occasional 5-K or 10-K race. It is possible to run a marathon with less of a training base (particularly if you come from another sport), but the higher your fitness level, the easier this 18-week program will be.

Read the whole training program!