Mag vs. E-mail schedules - Spring Marathon

lucrece

10/01/2005 at 13:58

I've been away from the forum for awhile, so apologies if this has already been covered. The marathon schedules in the magazine involve cross training, which sounds good to me as it would lessen risk of injury. But the schedules RW is e-mailing me and those on the site are 100% running.

Can anyone tell me why these are different and if anyone has tried the cross-training approach for a marathon?

cougie

pirate

10/01/2005 at 14:04

I cross train with cycling spinning and those silly ski machines.

Works for me. Maybe my times might be quicker if all I did was run, but I think I'd be more prone to injury and boredom.

Splodge

10/01/2005 at 14:13

I just came back from marathon camp and by the advice they were giving there i'd say cross training is a good thing.

If you're up with the fast guys you'll probably do a shorter run and some cross training in the same session.

I ran london last year and came away with an overuse injury. I didn't really cross train, just ran.

I think the emphasis is more on quality than quantity but your week should include your long run, a threshold run and a recovery run at the least.

Hope that helps.

M.ister W

10/01/2005 at 15:37

The training plans in this month's RW were written by the chap who lead this weekend's Trailplus training camp. People on the camp who have used his plans in the past have had very good results so I'd use one of those. The focus is on quality, rather than quantity so you will be making better use of the runs you do, rather than just pounding out the miles.

lucrece

10/01/2005 at 16:10

good to hear it! i'm also going to the trailplus camp in february.

thanks everyone for the quick replies.

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