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Permalink Reply by Don Moore on September 2, 2012 at 10:58pm

I used the marathon training to prepare for several 50K races. The weeks range from about 4 hrs. on an easy week to 8-10 hours as you build toward your goal race. One thing I noticed is that some weeks have a long run on the weekend that is listed by distance and not time. On those weeks, it looks like there is less time required but it actually ends up to be more time. (on trails, a 20 mile run may take 4-5 hours depending on terrain)

The cool thing about the training program is that you can set it to start at a particular date, or to end on the date of your goal race. If you choose to end at a particular date, it will start you at the adjusted day of the program, two, four, or six weeks in, depending on the end date. Hope that helps some.

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Permalink Reply by Melinda on September 3, 2012 at 2:07pm

Yes, that does help. I've used Eric's half-marathon plan twice now but wanted to get a sense of the time commitment for his marathon plan.

I'm currently putting in around 7-7.5 hours a week and it feels manageable. Happy to know that I won't have to bump that up too much using the plan to get prepared for a marathon. Thanks for the info!

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