Question:My question is during training are you suppose to run without walk
breaks, or do you run a mile and then walk a minute? Does anyone
have a training schedule that has worked for them?
Answer:
Some suggestions:
walking breaks are fine. Training is training, do whatever works.
I don't have a schedule for you but at the beginning stages where
you currently are it is better to go simply by time. Build up
to a 30minute run (without walking breaks) by starting with a
10min. run (walking when "necessary") and increasing slowly.
If you have Galloways book, (where's my copy when I need it??)
then may I suggest you try running a 10K first? there is a training
schedule for different times. Use the one with the lowest goal time.
As you train, you can judge whether you are better than that level.
But even before a 10K, try running a 5K race. Even a beginner with
only a little training (a few months for most, about 6months for me 8^)
can finish a 5K in about 30minutes. My first 5k time was 31:27, so
since a 5K is about 3.1miles, that made it about 10mintes per mile.
On practice runs over unknown courses I still use that as my
calibration: "ran 50minutes, so it must be 5miles!"
Galloway program has worked for a lot of people (others vary it
slightly)
I recommend getting the original book and following it--it is pretty
specific.
If you're getting injured after just two miles, good luck making it up to the
distances required to finish a marathon. Before you start training for a
marathon, why don't you try a few shorter races? Try a 5K, a 10K. Work up to
the marathon.
The Galloway method worked great for me. I trained by running 5 minutes
and then walking one. I did the Pacific Shoreline Marathon in Janauary
and will do LA this weekend.
