Question:How do Marathon runners or walkers train when not training for a marathon?
Answer:
Marathon training is 4 miles three times a week with 0 miles three times a
week, then a long one on the weekends. Sounds kind of lay back to me. A good
training for health would be 5 miles per day, six days per week. This sounds
like a more healthy way to train to me. (Walking or running, it doesn't
matter).
this link is to prepare someone to finish a marathon...
WALKING.
If you are looking for a life time fitness
activity, then maybe 6 days a week, walking
for an hour or two is the way to go. If you
are training for an endurance event, to RUN
it....then 4,5 and 6 day training programs
are available.
I've only done 1 marathon. 6 1/2 marathons. Countless
5K runs. When not training for a particular event,
I run between 20-30 miles a week. Depending on
my schedule, 4-6 days a week.
or walkers train when not training for a marathon?
Dont know a thing about walkers. Try rec.walking.
So you are talking about walking. I guess it would have been a
good idea to say so from the start. This is rec.running. I guess we assume
questions are about running not walking. Since I know nothing about
training for marathon walking I can't say much of anything about that.
You ask about how I train when I am not training for a marathon (running
type). I run. I run about 55-65 miles a week when getting close to a
marathon and about 20-35 miles a week the rest of the year. I work on a
marathon for about 4-5 months ahead of it.
That's not training to run a marathon. That's training to finish
a marathon.
A serious marathonner will run 60-100 miles per week, depending
on what their body can handle. Some can do it on less, and some run
up to 130 or so. (All numbers are approximate and vary with the athlete).
This is probably less good for you than a more casual training schedule,
because the point of some of it is to figure out how much your body can
take and produce the maximal training response. When you're playing around
with over 60 miles per week, you're likely to get injured a few times
as you test your limits.
.. in short, marathon training is _not_ training for health. Not supposed
to be. But if it gives you a goal that lets you become more healthy, then it's
great.
Just running for health? Chop down the long run a bit, and spread
the miles out a bit more. But even at 30 miles per week, you're probably
better off doing a hard/easy schedule. I'd probably go for something like
4/8/4 rest 4/8/4 rest. Running six days in a row is harder for many people
than you might think.
Really want just overall fitness with no particular addiction to running?
Scrap two or three days of running of those six and cross train. Swimming's great,
so's biking. Cuts down on the wear and tear on your legs, works different
muscle groups, lets you get more overall aerobic activity with less impact on
your body.
I don't understand running 55-65 miles per week in training for a marathon?
Look at the hyper link and they only want you to train half that. Could you
explain why so many miles per week?
I know that this is for runner and
I am a walker. (Forgive me for posting in the runners website), but you
guys know your stuff. My original post gave a hyperlink to walking a
marathon. So I would figure that to run a marathon would take at least twice
the mileage in training vs. walking a marathon? Would you comment on this?
I haven't the foggiest where you came up with that idea. What
I'm expressing is the difference between training to excel at a race
and training to merely get your feet to walk 26 miles. The latter
is easy. There are people hiking the Appalachian Trial who do 20-25
miles per day, EVERY DAY. Particularly for people not used to it,
it still hurts, because it's a lot of repetitive motion (I wouldn't walk
26 miles on flat ground without running a chunk of it for some variety),
but it's not taking you near the edge of glycogen depletion, lactate
buildup, or muscle damage.
As with many things, the training required to get to 90% of your capacity
is much more than twice the training required to get to 50% of your capacity.
