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Apparently it will tone your upper arms when you run and then on race day you will feel lighter?

Ok thanks, I've just been told to train with wrist weights, even if it's just 0.5kg, what are your thoughts please?

Hi Everyone,

I'm a first time runner and just signed up to the St Albans Half Marathon - June 9th. I'm 20-eat healthily and exercise moderately but running has never been my exact speciality.

Any tips/advice/anything would be gratefully received - be it the cheapest good running shoes (are they worth investing in) to what I should be aiming to do per week?

I posted on here before when I was thinking of running a marathon and was advised to do a half first so I'm hoping the responses are as good as last time!

Thanks in advance!

Wow, what a great response, thank you everyone for being so helpful! I think I will look into doing a half, and perhaps start training now?

Hi,

I'm new to all of this but I'm really keen to run the Brighton Marathon in mid-April.

I'm 20, reasonably fit (work out perhaps twice a week) but can only do 5k on a treadmill.

I've read that on average it takes 12-16 weeks to train for a marathon but if I were to enter this one - I would only have 8 weeks, does anyone believe this is physically possible or is it just a silly idea?

I'd also be happy running a half marathon but am based in London and so finding local halves with availability is near impossible.

Thanks,