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Marathon preperation 12 weeks

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Marathon preperation 12 weeks

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Author

Mathias Wilbers (Partricipate)

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Length

12 Weeks

Includes Structured Workouts

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Plan Description

This is a 12 week trainingplan for advanced runners. All the trainings are based on you anaerobic threshold, so it is a good thing to see if you threshold is accurate on your Trainingpeaks account.
It's a build-up in a 3.1 cyclus. 3 weeks building the volume and/or intensity and one recovery week.
It's a very marathon specific training approach for runners with a good running background. It is an approach for pyramidal trainingmodels.

The goal of this trainingplan is to prepare you for a PB on your marathon! It's an all in approach with an average from five trainingdays each week and up to seven trainingdays. I try to inform you on the purpose of each workout with a little explanation in physiology. So you can understand why you have to do a specific workout.

Feel free to e-mail me with your questions or other help I can give you.


Kind regards and enjoy running!

Mathias Wilbers (Partricipate)

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Training Plan Sample Week

Stats

Average Weekly Breakdown

Workouts Weekly Average Longest Workout
Run x5
05:09:00 02:10:00
Day Off x2
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Workouts Per Week Weekly Average Longest Workout
Run
05:09:00 02:10:00
Day Off
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Training Load By Week


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Mathias Wilbers

Partricipate

Triathlete and runner since 2017 and coach since 2019.
Experience in triathlon, running and cycling as a coach of different competitieve and amateur athletes.
Sport Nutrition Expert since 2016.


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