I’d love a video on how to balance strength training with running if you guys don’t have one already, quite difficult fitting leg days in when I also want to do a speed, easy and long run each week!
The hardest issue for me is if I do a hard leg session I end up having doms for 2-3 days on some weeks which are severe enough to not run. I guess it could be so bad because I am on a high calorie defect to lose weight so I'm taking leg day a little easier until I increase calories
I'd love this too! I want to start doing strength training to support my running, especially now I'm doing intervals once a week, but I'm not sure how to schedule it around four runs a week without getting burnt out
@martinshields7122 2-3 days of doms? Probably just decrease the weight you're doing so it isn't as intense. My weekly structure fwiw has been long run Sunday morning, easy run Monday (8km), speed work Wednesday, easy run Friday (8-10km). My leg day is Thursday which gives me enough time to recover for the long run. When I get into my marathon block next year I'll also be cycling Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The key is to decrease intensity of workouts if you want to do more of them.
I have used spreadsheet for over 10 years and it is great. Quick to adapt and update those phases (base, build, taper, recover) over the 52 week if an injury or other commitment pops up as can just slide the plans down a week. It’s is deeply satisfying too as enables a long-term look back of progress over the decade.
Just got accepted through the lottery for my first marathon, Dublin in October! Very excited but so confused about how soon to start and what to do beforehand as a first-timer, so this was helpful!
Whatever my training program suggests as the start date, I always start one or two weeks earlier. Gives me wiggle room for illness, injuries family obligations, moving homes etc.
Good luck! Depends on your goal (ie fast time or just finish), but 16-20 weeks is a good time to start a structured plan. Running regularly to build a base before then is encouraged. If you look at whatever plan you intend on doing, you can start now with week 1 and just keep repeating it.
There's a book called 'Master the Marathon" by Ali Nolan which lays it all out, I found it very helpful. It explains everything about each phase, has training plans for each of them, and it isn't overly complicated which I find a lot of running books are.
I have a spreadsheet with plans A-D, a new gym opening that has me excited for winter strength training, as well as a bike trainer and swim league for the off season. Plan A for next year is 1 triathlon, 1 marathon, and 2 fun shorter races in between!
Wow, this video really opened my eyes to the importance of structuring my year of running effectively. I never realized how much of a difference it can make in terms of progress and injury prevention. Thanks for sharing this valuable information."
Great video 🙌🙌 I can’t think of many if any of club mates or Strava friends who do a planned 2-4 week run break. My social life November-December tends to guarantee it. And I need it too, struggling with end of season niggles. Rest of advice great too, will bear it in mind 2025
You guys need to plan for Philadelphia Broad street run in May! Over 40,00 participants for a 10 mile run. I’m planning to run it for the first time, a promise I made to myself last year to get into shape.
I just finished my schedule for the Milan marathon on April 6th with a half marathon in Bergamo in between on February 2nd. After that I will have 4-6 weeks of recovery 😁
"Racing is such fun!" Greatest moment is sports' broadcasting history. Thank you. Oh, and the advice was useful. I'm absolutely knackered at present and wondering how to work out a base level to train from. This will be useful.
next year I'm currently hoping to run 2 half marathon races at least, to PB in the 5K and have a good cross country season. thanks for this video, maybe there's some more to fit in but I just want to enjoy running and find my rhythm after a big but very normal life adjustment
Did my first half marathon this October. For next year I'm working towards my first marathon and doing a sub 3:30. I've got a 10k in June, doing the London Big Half September, and I entered the Chicago marathon lottery for next October. If I don't get in Chicago I'll do the Philadelphia marathon in November. I'm excited for it! Although running through winter (Toronto) won't be fun. Would love to see someone from TRC running the big half so I can make it in the back of a video 😂
Training for a marathon in April (hopefully a BQ), followed by the B.A.A. distance medley (5K, 10K, HM) and throwing in an extra HM about a month before the B.A.A. HM. I hired a personal coach to guide me through this.
2 A-goals are set. My marathon debut in Copenhagen in May and a PB attempt in Copenhagen Half Marathon. Set for Lisbon Half marathon in March as part of the preparation
Never seen a video that is "xx seconds ago uploaded". Great timing for your video ive been thinking a lot about this... Even asked AI to create a schedule for me.
"how to plan a training season" by Strength Running has some additional info. Nearly 10 years old but filled many knowledge gaps I had: When to have maximum mileage? How to spread test races (he calls them "tune-up races") throughout the season? How many of them? How long should they be, depending on the length of the goal race? Etc etc.
So far my plans for 2025 are: April - Berlin Half-Marathon August - Trail Half-Marathon (23k & 361 elevation gain) I might do Wings for Life in May and I'd love to do something easier in autumn, maybe refocus on 5k and speed work. Will see!
Trying to train for my first 10k in November 2025 after injury amd then having a baby. Planning on building back up to a 5k by summer, doing a few weeks of maintenance at that level, then building as the weather starts to cool down
At the end of May I signed up for the Barcelona Marathon, so the event I'm training for (or something like that 😊😅…) is the Barcelona Marathon in March 2025
@ Well, after an injury that lasted forever (from March-opening 2017), and when it seemed like I was going back to pre-COVID times, COVID hit. So, between one thing and another, I’m way below the shape I could have had back in 2014-2016. The clearest indication is the volume of weekly/monthly/yearly kms. Even so, I signed up for this marathon and a friend (who is the one who “trained” me in the good times) has been guiding/advising/leading me since the end of May in this process… For now, and these last 6 months, basically the focus was to try to build an aerobic base to then train more specifically for March. As I say, these 6 months were (it seems) basically to accumulate volume, resulting in 1027 kms. In comparison, for example with 2023 (704 kms) and 2022 (706 kms), the increase in volume is noticeable. For now I feel good, I have been feeling better and without training for it I improved times in the few 10k races I have done lately, without having done any training yet that could be considered “speed” Let's wait and see how these remaining weeks go 🙄😅. The basic and main objective is to be able to be on the starting line. Other issues both prior to and on the day itself will be considered. I just hope, counting on the premise of being able to be there that day, that nothing important comes up that prevents me from enjoying the party that is completing the 42'195 kms 🫣🫣🫣😇😇😇 Thanks for asking!!!!... and forgive me for the large number of words 🙈🙈🙈
@@runningchannel Well, after an injury that lasted forever (from March-opening 2017), and when it seemed like I was going back to pre-COVID times, COVID hit. So, between one thing and another, I’m way below the shape I could have had back in 2014-2016. The clearest indication is the volume of weekly/monthly/yearly kms. Even so, I signed up for this marathon and a friend (who is the one who trained me in the good times) has been guiding/advising/leading me since the end of May in this process… For now, and these last 6 months, basically the focus was to try to build an aerobic base to then train more specifically for March. As I say, these 6 months were (it seems) basically to accumulate volume, resulting in 1027 kms. In comparison, for example with 2023 (704 kms) and 2022 (706 kms), the increase in volume is noticeable. For now I feel good, I have been feeling better and without training for it I improved times in the few 10k races I have done lately, without having done any training yet that could be considered “speed”. Let's wait and see how these remaining weeks go 🙄😅. The basic and main objective is to be able to be on the starting line. Other issues both prior to and on the day itself will be considered. I just hope, counting on the premise of being able to be there that day, that nothing important comes up that prevents me from enjoying the party that is completing the 42'195 kms 🫣🫣🫣😇😇😇 Thanks for asking!!!!... and forgive me for the large number of words 🙈🙈🙈
This year I did my first marathon. So next year I'm doing two in a month, Brighton and Manchester. Training block starts in a couple of weeks. Not sure I want to plan beyond that 🤔 😂
my plan for next year is to run an olympic distance triathlon. I would like to run a half-ironman someday and maybe a full ironman. I've run about 5 half-marathons. I made a personal worst on my last one because I didn't think things through. I tried keeping up with the 1:45 pacer. I saw that my heart rate was way too high and I was running way too fast. In hindsight I should have tried staying with the 1:50 group and picked up the pace later. That's what I'll do next time.
Loads of base building till February on the bike, cross trainer and running. 10km may, sprint triathlon, June, 4k swim+ sprint triahlon in August, half in October, 10k this time next year 🙃🙂
My A-goal is probably about 10 months out, but since it is my first ultra, I don't want to drop down my weekly mileage too much for fear that it will be too hard to build it back up again.
at 63 trying to take up running again after gaining 120 pounds (and lost it the last two years lost the weight) and a prior smoker 10 years ago, can walk for 15 miles but cant run more than 200M without a 5 min rest to catch breath and HR, wondering if i should work more on shorter sprints rather than pushing distance. END goal is to run a 5k without stopping, i think next year would like to run maybe close to a mile without stopping, not sure if its doable unless i can lose the last 25 pounds to be at my 17 year old body weight when i was a HS Track star and USMC bootcamp.
I have 5 x 10k races next year! The "Run like L" series in Scotland. There's only 2 weeks between a couple of them though, and I would like to run them all as hard as I can. I wonder what the advice would be for my training in between these two with such a short gap in between?
Does anyone run just for the fun or for the sake of it, no races or lofty goals planned in the year? How does one structure a year like that? I used to race all the time, in everything. Now many years later I have come to hate official racing and will ever go back to it. Any thoughts?
just do what's fun! I run with a group so that really helps me stay consistent. And then I love biking so that's most of my cross training. Throw in some trail races because I love running on trails and the race environment is fun if I don't take it too seriously, and that's as close to a structured plan as I ever get lol
I run just for the absolute love of running, I've been running 3 and a half years after doing Couch to 5km. Never entered a race and have no intention of entering a race, I just dont have the confidence. I have my own PB's at 5km, 10km, half marathon and marathon distances. I have a stuctured week, Tue is either intervals or hill reps, Thur is a tempo run, Sat is a long run (usually 10 miles) and Sunday is an easy/shakeout run. Mon is a 20 min core strenth workout and Wed is a 20 min leg strengh workout, then its put my feet up Friday 😂!
I’d love a video on how to balance strength training with running if you guys don’t have one already, quite difficult fitting leg days in when I also want to do a speed, easy and long run each week!
The hardest issue for me is if I do a hard leg session I end up having doms for 2-3 days on some weeks which are severe enough to not run.
I guess it could be so bad because I am on a high calorie defect to lose weight so I'm taking leg day a little easier until I increase calories
I'd love this too! I want to start doing strength training to support my running, especially now I'm doing intervals once a week, but I'm not sure how to schedule it around four runs a week without getting burnt out
Yes! I'd also love to know!
You don't need to much stuff. Just a few sets of squats, lunges, side plank etc. over the week. Nothing fancy.
@martinshields7122 2-3 days of doms? Probably just decrease the weight you're doing so it isn't as intense.
My weekly structure fwiw has been long run Sunday morning, easy run Monday (8km), speed work Wednesday, easy run Friday (8-10km). My leg day is Thursday which gives me enough time to recover for the long run. When I get into my marathon block next year I'll also be cycling Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The key is to decrease intensity of workouts if you want to do more of them.
I have used spreadsheet for over 10 years and it is great. Quick to adapt and update those phases (base, build, taper, recover) over the 52 week if an injury or other commitment pops up as can just slide the plans down a week. It’s is deeply satisfying too as enables a long-term look back of progress over the decade.
Just got accepted through the lottery for my first marathon, Dublin in October! Very excited but so confused about how soon to start and what to do beforehand as a first-timer, so this was helpful!
So lucky, I've done dublin a few times but didn't get in this lottery.. devastated is am understatement 😢. Best of luck with it😊
Whatever my training program suggests as the start date, I always start one or two weeks earlier. Gives me wiggle room for illness, injuries family obligations, moving homes etc.
Good luck! Depends on your goal (ie fast time or just finish), but 16-20 weeks is a good time to start a structured plan. Running regularly to build a base before then is encouraged. If you look at whatever plan you intend on doing, you can start now with week 1 and just keep repeating it.
There's a book called 'Master the Marathon" by Ali Nolan which lays it all out, I found it very helpful. It explains everything about each phase, has training plans for each of them, and it isn't overly complicated which I find a lot of running books are.
I have a spreadsheet with plans A-D, a new gym opening that has me excited for winter strength training, as well as a bike trainer and swim league for the off season. Plan A for next year is 1 triathlon, 1 marathon, and 2 fun shorter races in between!
ive always loved watching this channel and i have improved so much by watching!
i hope to run a half marathon in 2025!
I'm running for the longterm. 3 days a week 15-20 miles total. Mixed up different effort levels.
3 days a week 15-20 miles ain’t really enough
@Carlitabita ain't enough for what? For health and well being 3 days a week and 20miles is more than enough.
Wow, this video really opened my eyes to the importance of structuring my year of running effectively. I never realized how much of a difference it can make in terms of progress and injury prevention. Thanks for sharing this valuable information."
Why are all your videos all the things I’m thinking love it ❤❤❤
Great video 🙌🙌
I can’t think of many if any of club mates or Strava friends who do a planned 2-4 week run break. My social life November-December tends to guarantee it. And I need it too, struggling with end of season niggles. Rest of advice great too, will bear it in mind 2025
Great topic! I love every video with Sarah
You guys need to plan for Philadelphia Broad street run in May! Over 40,00 participants for a 10 mile run. I’m planning to run it for the first time, a promise I made to myself last year to get into shape.
I just finished my schedule for the Milan marathon on April 6th with a half marathon in Bergamo in between on February 2nd. After that I will have 4-6 weeks of recovery 😁
Very informative and excellent scripting and camera work in this one! 👏👏👏
I needed this 😊
I would love a video about race day strategies. Do you start out at your goal pace? Do you account for speeding up?
How much to warm up for a race?
2 A-races are already set. 50km German champs by the end of February and Rennsteig Supermarathon (73,9km, 1800m elevation gain) in May.
Very helpful video! Thank you so much Running Channel!
"Racing is such fun!" Greatest moment is sports' broadcasting history. Thank you.
Oh, and the advice was useful. I'm absolutely knackered at present and wondering how to work out a base level to train from. This will be useful.
I'm running London Marathon in April for Leukemia Care ❤ my first full marathon!! Farnborough Half in Feb is my B event 🏃
next year I'm currently hoping to run 2 half marathon races at least, to PB in the 5K and have a good cross country season. thanks for this video, maybe there's some more to fit in but I just want to enjoy running and find my rhythm after a big but very normal life adjustment
Did my first half marathon this October. For next year I'm working towards my first marathon and doing a sub 3:30. I've got a 10k in June, doing the London Big Half September, and I entered the Chicago marathon lottery for next October. If I don't get in Chicago I'll do the Philadelphia marathon in November. I'm excited for it! Although running through winter (Toronto) won't be fun. Would love to see someone from TRC running the big half so I can make it in the back of a video 😂
Training for a marathon in April (hopefully a BQ), followed by the B.A.A. distance medley (5K, 10K, HM) and throwing in an extra HM about a month before the B.A.A. HM. I hired a personal coach to guide me through this.
2 A-goals are set. My marathon debut in Copenhagen in May and a PB attempt in Copenhagen Half Marathon. Set for Lisbon Half marathon in March as part of the preparation
Never seen a video that is "xx seconds ago uploaded". Great timing for your video ive been thinking a lot about this... Even asked AI to create a schedule for me.
So glad it's come at a good time! What did AI say? 😂
"how to plan a training season" by Strength Running has some additional info. Nearly 10 years old but filled many knowledge gaps I had: When to have maximum mileage? How to spread test races (he calls them "tune-up races") throughout the season? How many of them? How long should they be, depending on the length of the goal race? Etc etc.
So far my plans for 2025 are:
April - Berlin Half-Marathon
August - Trail Half-Marathon (23k & 361 elevation gain)
I might do Wings for Life in May and I'd love to do something easier in autumn, maybe refocus on 5k and speed work. Will see!
Manchester marathon and then (fingers crossed) Berlin and Chicago!
I've got my first marathon in Belfast on 4th May.
Then I might book another marathon for autumn, or perhaps a few shorter races.
Trying to train for my first 10k in November 2025 after injury amd then having a baby. Planning on building back up to a 5k by summer, doing a few weeks of maintenance at that level, then building as the weather starts to cool down
I'm planning a back to back to back 10k-5k-Marathon plans.
Working on gaining speed first so I can go for a Marathon PB.
I just train all year round but step up the intensity every few weeks and go for a PB.
At the end of May I signed up for the Barcelona Marathon, so the event I'm training for (or something like that 😊😅…) is the Barcelona Marathon in March 2025
Amazing!!! How are you feeling about it?
@ Well, after an injury that lasted forever (from March-opening 2017), and when it seemed like I was going back to pre-COVID times, COVID hit.
So, between one thing and another, I’m way below the shape I could have had back in 2014-2016.
The clearest indication is the volume of weekly/monthly/yearly kms.
Even so, I signed up for this marathon and a friend (who is the one who “trained” me in the good times) has been guiding/advising/leading me since the end of May in this process…
For now, and these last 6 months, basically the focus was to try to build an aerobic base to then train more specifically for March.
As I say, these 6 months were (it seems) basically to accumulate volume, resulting in 1027 kms.
In comparison, for example with 2023 (704 kms) and 2022 (706 kms), the increase in volume is noticeable.
For now I feel good, I have been feeling better and without training for it I improved times in the few 10k races I have done lately, without having done any training yet that could be considered “speed”
Let's wait and see how these remaining weeks go 🙄😅.
The basic and main objective is to be able to be on the starting line.
Other issues both prior to and on the day itself will be considered.
I just hope, counting on the premise of being able to be there that day, that nothing important comes up that prevents me from enjoying the party that is completing the 42'195 kms 🫣🫣🫣😇😇😇
Thanks for asking!!!!... and forgive me for the large number of words 🙈🙈🙈
@@runningchannel
Well, after an injury that lasted forever (from March-opening 2017), and when it seemed like I was going back to pre-COVID times, COVID hit.
So, between one thing and another, I’m way below the shape I could have had back in 2014-2016.
The clearest indication is the volume of weekly/monthly/yearly kms.
Even so, I signed up for this marathon and a friend (who is the one who trained me in the good times) has been guiding/advising/leading me since the end of May in this process…
For now, and these last 6 months, basically the focus was to try to build an aerobic base to then train more specifically for March.
As I say, these 6 months were (it seems) basically to accumulate volume, resulting in 1027 kms.
In comparison, for example with 2023 (704 kms) and 2022 (706 kms), the increase in volume is noticeable.
For now I feel good, I have been feeling better and without training for it I improved times in the few 10k races I have done lately, without having done any training yet that could be considered “speed”.
Let's wait and see how these remaining weeks go 🙄😅.
The basic and main objective is to be able to be on the starting line.
Other issues both prior to and on the day itself will be considered.
I just hope, counting on the premise of being able to be there that day, that nothing important comes up that prevents me from enjoying the party that is completing the 42'195 kms 🫣🫣🫣😇😇😇
Thanks for asking!!!!... and forgive me for the large number of words 🙈🙈🙈
This year I did my first marathon. So next year I'm doing two in a month, Brighton and Manchester. Training block starts in a couple of weeks. Not sure I want to plan beyond that 🤔 😂
my plan for next year is to run an olympic distance triathlon. I would like to run a half-ironman someday and maybe a full ironman. I've run about 5 half-marathons. I made a personal worst on my last one because I didn't think things through. I tried keeping up with the 1:45 pacer. I saw that my heart rate was way too high and I was running way too fast. In hindsight I should have tried staying with the 1:50 group and picked up the pace later. That's what I'll do next time.
Loads of base building till February on the bike, cross trainer and running.
10km may,
sprint triathlon, June,
4k swim+ sprint triahlon in August,
half in October,
10k this time next year 🙃🙂
Sounds like a fun plan!
@runningchannel you should set Andy a challenge for him to a triathlon or duathlon 😂 team up with GTN
I plan to do a 5k every week or every two week this year to build a running base and improving 5k times
My two big goals for next year are a 90min HM and a sub 40 10k
brighton marathon booked in 🏅
watford half
windsor half
maidenhead half
endure 24
beat the sunset 50k
good luck everyone smash 2025🏅💪🏻
Wow sounds like a great year!
My A-goal is probably about 10 months out, but since it is my first ultra, I don't want to drop down my weekly mileage too much for fear that it will be too hard to build it back up again.
at 63 trying to take up running again after gaining 120 pounds (and lost it the last two years lost the weight) and a prior smoker 10 years ago, can walk for 15 miles but cant run more than 200M without a 5 min rest to catch breath and HR, wondering if i should work more on shorter sprints rather than pushing distance. END goal is to run a 5k without stopping, i think next year would like to run maybe close to a mile without stopping, not sure if its doable unless i can lose the last 25 pounds to be at my 17 year old body weight when i was a HS Track star and USMC bootcamp.
Looks cold, A race Tokyo marathon and run sub 4 hours
5:48 *complement 😊
I have 5 x 10k races next year! The "Run like L" series in Scotland. There's only 2 weeks between a couple of them though, and I would like to run them all as hard as I can. I wonder what the advice would be for my training in between these two with such a short gap in between?
Like Sarah I am a Marathon (Brighton in April) then I want to concentrate on a faster 5km work towards 20 mins
Sounds like a great plan!!
It's nearly time to break New Year resolutions! Sorry, I meant "make".
hahaha
My off-season consists of getting tattoo's 😎😎
Does anyone run just for the fun or for the sake of it, no races or lofty goals planned in the year? How does one structure a year like that? I used to race all the time, in everything. Now many years later I have come to hate official racing and will ever go back to it. Any thoughts?
just do what's fun! I run with a group so that really helps me stay consistent. And then I love biking so that's most of my cross training. Throw in some trail races because I love running on trails and the race environment is fun if I don't take it too seriously, and that's as close to a structured plan as I ever get lol
I run just for the absolute love of running, I've been running 3 and a half years after doing Couch to 5km. Never entered a race and have no intention of entering a race, I just dont have the confidence. I have my own PB's at 5km, 10km, half marathon and marathon distances. I have a stuctured week, Tue is either intervals or hill reps, Thur is a tempo run, Sat is a long run (usually 10 miles) and Sunday is an easy/shakeout run. Mon is a 20 min core strenth workout and Wed is a 20 min leg strengh workout, then its put my feet up Friday 😂!
My wedding this year so iv booked 2 half's 2 10ks and 4 leisure rides
My goal is to run 100 miles at the bridge 100. So I can run the tunnel 200 feb 25.
Main Goal For The Year is a sub 16 Flat 5k and Sub 17 Hilly 5k
What if your goal is ‘don’t die’ and you just run to stay fit? There is no ‘taper’ for that..
Not every video needs to do while running, this kind of video should be make at studio. Please do a better video of this topic at the studio 😢
You meant complement instead of compliment in your list.
What if my goal is consistency? How do I... hmmmm....
I think Mo needs more jacket 🧥
The best way? Don't. You'll never stick to it anyway
Lactate, Lactate, Lactate! Repeat it often. It's not Lactic. Listen to Andy talk, he 'never' says lactic, or lactic acid', he says Lactate.