Another marathon in six weeks after Boston

You've 'fully recovered' in 5 days after Boston? Really? If so, then my advice would be to run a hilly 26-miler at race pace once per week for the next 5 weeks leading up to your next race. Good luck.

come on man, you know what I meant by "fully recovered": I can walk properly and can start running... basically I will have one easy running week, followed by three weeks of good training and two weeks of tapering. So what I wanted to know is what kind of workouts to put during these three weeks.

Bad idea. But if you are insistent on doing it, focus on recovery and easy mileage for the next few weeks. Your legs are more tore up than you realize unless you are a Michael Wardian freak of nature type.

Thanks, I signed up a long time ago so I will go for it.

I found a couple of good links:

http://www.halhigdon.com/training/51153/Marathon-Multiple-Marathons-Training-Program

http://www.runningplanet.com/training/running-multiple-or-consecutive-marathons.html

I will go for an easy 10K after London is finished and see how my legs are..

I am glad you are safe and well.

Congratulations on finishing Boston.

Good luck in Stockholm

Art

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It can be done but as other posters have stated you need to focus on recovery. And more than 1 week. Blowing up in a marathon takes a real toll on the body.

I would keep it nice and easy for at least 2 weeks, spend 1 week introducing pace work slowly and 2 focusing on pace. You just need to maintain your fitness, you are not going to get any faster.

Good luck. Keep us updated.

joho wrote:

I would keep it nice and easy for at least 2 weeks, spend 1 week introducing pace work slowly and 2 focusing on pace. You just need to maintain your fitness, you are not going to get any faster.

Detta.

humbled_by_Boston wrote:

come on man, you know what I meant by "fully recovered": I can walk properly and can start running...

ADVISORY: Injuries in the weeks that follow Boston can surface in a delayed manner. Please proceed with caution. I speak from 30 years experience treating injured marathon runners.

Good luck. Glad to know you were not harmed on Monday.

Doc

Doc 2 Doc wrote:

ADVISORY: Injuries in the weeks that follow Boston can surface in a delayed manner. Please proceed with caution. I speak from 30 years experience treating injured marathon runners.

Good luck. Glad to know you were not harmed on Monday.

Doc, should have listened to you!

This was my running log after Boston

-15/4: Boston

-rested until 20/4

-21/4: 10K in about 50 min

-23/4: plan was to repeat the 10K in 50 min, but was a nice weather and got carried away, ended up doing few kms at 4:00 pace, averaging at about 4:25 pace (these are Km paces, btw:-)..my knee kinda hurt a bit at the end

-25/4: went out running with some chick, so managed to run between 5min to 6min per Km... I still felt the knee pain a bit

-28/4: ran around 17k with a friend, we started slow but the last 5K or so were relatively fast, ranging between 4 and 4:30 per km ... when I went home my knees were really hurting...

The next day, I have real pain going down the stairs, so I am skipping all running till next week, and if it doesnt stop, bye bye stockholm! :-(