Of course, if you’re used to running and do it daily, it’s NBD to slowly increase mileage and keep running almost every day. When a good friend reached out about getting injured during her beginner’s half marathon plan, I took a look at it for probably 3 seconds before saying, It’s very easy to overtrain, especially with the myriad of “training plans” that are out there. It’s very common for runners to get injured during training because they push it too hard and don’t train efficiently. It can help to strengthen and protect your muscles, particularly the ones surrounding your knee and hips, to help you run faster and more safely. I think it’s SO important to complement your running with some type of strength training. Since so many of my friends are taking advantage of outdoor workouts and planning fall physical or virtual races, I wanted to re-share this post about a somewhat tricky topic: training for a half marathon while strength training. Hi friends! Happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Whereas the 5K and 10K are skewed in favor of fitness over finesse, any race distance that takes an hour or more to complete requires a bit more strategy than it does guts.Sharing the details on how to train for a half marathon and keep up a running routine while making time for strength training. That’s why having a good estimate of goal pace and then practicing it in training is an absolute requirement to be ready for your best performance on race day.” Since half-marathon pace falls somewhere between those two thresholds for most of us, it makes it a hard pace to “feel.” Running close to a threshold is much easier for most runners. The lactate threshold is roughly one-hour race pace (half-marathon pace for really speedy runners, but too fast for most) whereas the aerobic threshold is roughly two and a half hour race pace (half-marathon pace for some of us, but a bit slow for many-and marathon pace for a few up front). “Part of the reason that half-marathon pace is such a weird pace for many runners is that it lies between two key thresholds: The anaerobic or lactate threshold and the aerobic threshold.

McMillan Running has the perfect definition for the nuance of the half-marathon distance:

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