Marathon: how to help a beginner

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        • Participant
          iceman83 on October 10, 2006 at 2:25 am #12245

          Hello… I have a question: a friend of mine is a beginner to a marathon…he is a newbie and he usually do to train a run about 10-15km every saturday in about an hour..sunday he did milan city marathon in 4h 27min and was his first marathon… he also made the stralugano 3 weeks ago (30km) in 2h 40min …
          I'd like to have some piece of advice to help in improving…thanks…
          federico…
          :thumbup:

        • Member
          beast on October 10, 2006 at 4:47 am #57640

          what is your weekly mileage at? usually the best advice is the obvious advice: if hes a newbie, miles miles and more miles. slowly increase his mileage and the results will come. Lydiard reckoned that the best thing for running is running, and i would agree, especially for the marathon distance. also the less weight you have to carry the better. plus increasing the long run will help a lot.

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          Mike Young on October 10, 2006 at 7:45 am #57641

          I agree but he'll also benefit from some up-tempo work. Doing 400m and 800m repeats will greatly enhance movement efficiency, aerobic capacity, VO2max and overall speed.

          ELITETRACK Founder

        • Member
          beast on October 10, 2006 at 12:11 pm #57642

          yea i agree but i didnt want to dump too much on him too quickly.

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