5 pieces of advice to succeed in your first Marathon
Let's learn about yourself, and learn from my experience (Forest Marathon 2017) 1) get the objective right. If you have a half marathon time, it can help you as a reference for the full for example you can double your half marathon time and add 10%. so if you run 2h for the half you potentially run 4h24min for the full. Keep in mind this is only a reference, not a scientific fact or stat. if you usually do long run at about 80% of your max Heart rate with no problem and finish yoru half in a great physical state you will be certainly in a 5% ratio or less compare to the 10%. But if you have difficulties to maintain the tempo and are over 85% of your Heart rate, you need to include a muscular fatigue and revise your objective and add over 15% over the double add on of your half marathon time 2) 10 to 12 weeks preparation ? It just depends what training base you have. The body need a time to adapt a training regime and it can only be done progressively for your