Read week one before the title
A plan advertised for beginners can open with four days and 20–25 miles. If your recent normal week is two short runs, the plan does not begin where you are. Count backward from race day, then add the weeks required to reach the first week safely.
Three clocks matter
- Base clock: regular frequency and enough volume to enter the plan.
- Marathon clock: the 16–20 week distance-specific build.
- Buffer clock: room for illness, travel, weather, or repeating a week.
World Athletics recommends adapting one-size-fits-all plans, supporting training with sleep and recovery, addressing injuries early, and planning race-day logistics in advance.
Fitness is only one deadline
Fuel tolerance, shoe and clothing decisions, breakfast timing, travel, aid-station use, and pace judgment require rehearsals too. A calendar that barely creates one long run but leaves no chance to test execution is not complete preparation.
Choose a later race when needed
A race date does not make a training jump safer. If the base misses the entry requirement after reasonable adjustments, moving the race protects the larger goal better than forcing the schedule.
Keep the ordinary weeks moving
Run More! You can do it!
RunTeaming is a running game for iPhone and Android. Your best qualifying run of the week becomes your score on a five-runner team. The app supplies the team and matches it against another team near its level, so you do not recruit anyone or share a time or location.
Use the button to choose iPhone or Android and see the current installation options.
Try RunTeamingRun anywhere · No team to recruit · No shared schedule · Choose the installation page for your phone