Critique this Program - Does it seem right for me?

Training Advice/Discussion Marathon

10 years ago 10/06/2013 1:43am EDT

I want to beat 1:30 for the half marathon in mid December and would like some advice on this program and if it seems suitable or not or if there is another or some changes you would make,

Runners Wold sub 1:30 half plan.

http://rw.runnersworld.com/challenge/plans/half/break-130.pdf

A little about me. Been running seriously for just over a year. 31 year old male. Previous bests are 1:32 for the half (in marathon training) and 3:15 for the marathon (halve splits = 1:35 + 1:40 - 3 months ago). I've only timed a 5km once for 19:44.

This will be my first time doing interval training.

Thanks for your help.

10 years ago 10/06/2013 1:48am EDT

re: New Prog

edit: Best 5km was the closing 5km of my half in 19:23. This was 4 months ago.

10 years ago 10/07/2013 11:58pm EDT

re: New Prog

What kind of training did you do for the marathon?

10 years ago 10/08/2013 12:09am EDT

re: 26.2PRO

I would stop reading Runner's World.

Just run as much as you can and do lots of tempo and you can likely run 1:25 without overthinking it.

10 years ago 10/08/2013 1:49am EDT

re: New Prog

Marathon Training was between about 50 - 80km per week, completely unstructured with a few weeks off for injury over about 3 months. Weekly long run at about 4:40 - 5:30 per Km. Longest run was 31km a few weeks out. A few quicker 10 - 15km efforts and plenty of after work 'round the block' slow runs of about 6-8 km. On the day I felt like I was gonna die for about the last hour but was pretty happy for first time out.

10 years ago 10/08/2013 4:40am EDT

re: New Prog

Generally okay, but I don't like that is only 5 running days a week for most of the program. The Rest/XT, long run, Rest/XT blocks seem overly cautious to me.

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