'd recommend getting in a few 5K, 10K, half marathons etc before you try a marathon."Every RW member knows that it's a bad idea to run any marathon when you've got barely any running experience and have done precious little training. The pulling power of London
The shorter the race, the longer the warm up. For a 5K you'll see me doing a couple of miles so I'm ready to run fast as soon as the gun goes. For a marathon I'll manage a gentle stroll to the toilets. – Mister WIt normally takes me about three miles to feel
, it can't be beaten. My daughters got to 5K by using the same techniques as their mother: run-walk a set distance, and build from there. Going for gentle jogs with my daughters after my own 12-mile runs is a perfect way to ease away post
the distance down into smaller sections. The last run in a duathlon is tough on the legs, and I hadn't practised the whole bike to run transition, so my legs felt like dead weights. I talked to myself through the whole 5K circuit, promising myself I could take
the door!Look at some of your old forum posts, and remember how exciting it felt when you finished your first 5k. (Dafffy)Go for a walk in your running kit with water, and just run when you feel like it. (The Evil Pixie)To hell with time. Remember why you
. After that, book yourself into a 5K or 10K, start thinking about whether you want to do another marathon on the spring, then get back to training again. – 99%ChimpListen to your body and ease yourself back into it. I've taken it easy these past two weeks
did our first 5K fun-run a few weeks ago, which felt great. We're signed up for a 10K in February and a half-marathon in March. – NamasteDitch the treadieGet off the treadmill (most boring form of exercise ever invented!) and out of the gym. Mix up
Practice transitionsTry running to and from your local swimming pool so you get used to going from one discipline to another, and make sure you can run say four miles – that'll see you through the 5K. In my first Tri I found the immediate transition from cyling
:52, 22 mins slower than normal and 29 mins slower than PB. It was gruelling running, with my tongue stuck to my cheek and wanting a water station every 100m instead of 5K. I would think you could recover form a mid-week blow-out – but if it the race
