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three Half Marathons in one month, any advice?

guest — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:11:01 GMT

lenzlaw wrote:

I'd be inclined to treat the 2nd one as a training run. You have experience racing the other two 4 weeks apart so you shouldn't do anything different training-wise (or diet-wise) except adding the 2nd race as a training run. The problem, of course, is going with your running buddies, which may turn it into a competitive event no matter how hard you try not to. Good luck!

Len

Yes, I was also thinking as treating the one in the middle as a training run. It is held in a city where I used to live and I welcome the oportunity to see it from street level without having to worry about cars trying to run me over. My running buddies will indeed be a problem, however, they are a competitive bunch of individuals (not that I am like them at all) and I find it increasingly difficult not to show them I have been training much harder than them...

I don't know, maybe I should go for the painful but safe solution and equip my girlfriend with some sort of taser-like implement to be used in case I go over the designated pace per mile...

Thanks for your advice!

three Half Marathons in one month, any advice?

guest — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:02:32 GMT

I'd be inclined to treat the 2nd one as a training run. You have experience racing the other two 4 weeks apart so you shouldn't do anything different training-wise (or diet-wise) except adding the 2nd race as a training run. The problem, of course, is going with your running buddies, which may turn it into a competitive event no matter how hard you try not to. Good luck!

Len

three Half Marathons in one month, any advice?

guest — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:30:37 GMT

Hi all,

I am currently 34 and am in the best shape I have ever been, last year I run 3 half marathons and quite a few 5Ks and 10Ks. This season I have had some minor injuries that prevented me from starting the half marathon season as early as I would have liked, but now everything is fine and I am finally at my best. I have been running between 30 and 40 miles for the last three months (and arround 30 for the last year). I am not a fast runner, but I do ok (I hope to run next race under 1h 35 min).

I had planned to run two half marathons next months (30 days between the two). I already did this last year and there were no problems. One is sort of "compulsory" as my father in law is one of the organizers and the other is the event I have been training for the last two months. The thing is I recently decided to run a third half marathon which is scheduled in between the two. So my new schedule looks like this.

Feb 3rd -> Half Marathon number 1 (main event)

Feb 17th -> HM 2 (nice place, plan to go there with some of my running buddies)

March 3rd -> HM3 (I really HAVE or my father in law will be nagging me for a couple of weeks, besides I quite like the race too)

So the questions are:

- Any advice on how to do this with the least possible risk of injury? How should I plan my training for this month.

- Any advice in terms of diet? I am also considering my Physiothratpist somewhere in between race 2 and 3, would it be better to see her after race one? The main reasons for seing her is to continue the follow up in my (now healed) knee injuries but also to get a general checkup in any small pains that might appear.

- Finally, I will definetly give my best for the first race, but I can take it easy in the other two. I would, however, prefer to go easy only in one, which one would you choose?

Thanks all for your advice.