Half Marathon Training Plan
Training for a half marathon? I ran one in 2012 and since then, I’ve become a NASM certified personal trainer and I’ve learned a few tips and tricks along the way!
In 2012, signed up for the Richmond Half Marathon because I was in the mood for a new fitness goal. The longest distance I had run previously is a 10K, so this will definitely push me!
As for a training schedule, I loosely followed this half marathon training plan from Fitness magazine.
I was already in the habit of walking a lot. I’ve been a big fan of wearing fitness trackers (check out why I switched from Fitbit to Garmin) and I love having a goal in mind!
I’ve also made the most of my treadmill by building this DIY Treadmill Desk. This makes it easy to walk and work at the same time! When I’m in the mood for a workout but I don’t feel like running, I do this walking treadmill workout.
I’ve found that small behaviors like hitting 10,000 steps a day and walking while working have set me up nicely to be able to hit bigger fitness goals like a half marathon!
What fitness goals are you working on?
Yippee!! Congratulations!
Awesome, you’re very
brave! Love your level headed take on the training!
You will be awesome 🙂 Good luck!
GO GIRL! I’ve run 3 halfys and I never said no to something fun to train, gotten up early (unless I wanted to) or changed my diet…so you shouldn’t have any trouble! It looks like all of your training in that plan in running…which is obviously good since you’re goal is to RUN a half marathon. For me though, I got sick of running QUICK while training so I was on a plan where I “cross-trained” (aka did any other exercise EXCEPT running) for 1 or 2 days a week. I say, if you get sick of running, replacing a short run with 30 minutes of cross training. Good luck!
Awesome! I like your training style 😀 Good luck!!
Good luck! We live on the route so you’ll run right by my house!
I’ll keep an eye out for you! 😉
So Kate was like “Do you want to join Liz and I to run the half marathon?!” Me: “Yeah no.” haha. Proud of you though! And even happier that you won’t be doing crazy sacrifices for it either 🙂
You know my social life comes first 😉
congrats on saying up for the half marathon! Looks like you got a good plan of attack 🙂 you will do great, once race day comes you will have a blast
Congrats! I’ve never done a half but I did start running about 3 years ago and have done several 5K’s and really just tell myself to do it for fun! Maybe someday i’ll do a half I do like your approach to it! Just have fun!
As long as it’s just for fun, there really is no downside! 🙂
Congrats on the half marathon- I LOVE your approach to it! Running is meant to be fun, not take over your lie..unless of course you’re getting paid to do so :)!