I'm planning on using the daniels 2Q program for my early December marathon, which calls for 18 weeks of workouts leading up to the race. i already have a strong base, so my question is it ok to limit my phase 1/base weeks, and to add a bunch of weeks of workouts in there instead?
i'm not worried about getting hurt, only about overtraining/not hitting an optimal performance.
You can definitely get stale from having an overly-long buildup. Even 18 weeks is pushing it, imo.
12-14 weeks is good .
Just don't start carbo loading until June.
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