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- Author
- Kathleen Hunt
- Rating
- 3 / 5
- Date
- 2020-09-29
- Title
- Disappointed
- Plan
- novice-1-half-marathon
- Pinned
- no
- WP id
- 1891
Body
I followed this program very closely in training for my first half marathon, even adding 2 weeks to it (14 total weeks of dedicated training), yet my half marathon was painful, finishing in 2 hours 50 minutes. I'm OK with the time (wanted to finish under 3 hours) but I felt terrible for much of the second half. I'm fit, have been all my life, and 58 years old. For this particular training program I don't understand why you'd never train to the full extent of your race distance. In fact, the last 3 miles were the worst of this half marathon, and following this program you never run longer than 10 in training. I don't know that it would have helped me, but I do wonder about that. My running partner fared better (20 years younger, came to greater fitness over our training, heavier than me) so maybe I'm just not built for distance running. In fact, the only long run I ever felt good after during all 14 weeks of training was one 7 mile run. I think I'll stick to 10K's.
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