Marathon Training With Short Distances

Video Transcript

"Hi! I’m Angela on behalf of Expertvillage.com and right now I am going to discuss two different theories for training for a marathon. There is no right answer to these theories, but it is important to know both of them to determine what is best for you. The first theory is that your longest run while training for a marathon should be the length of an actual marathon, if not farther. The second theory is that you run 2 different times 22 miles in length, but that you not exceed that or run it a third time. You will risk over exhaustion. While doing these runs, for both of these theories it’s the same, it is important that you run at a conversational pace. Your heart rate is inversely related to the amount of fat you are burning. Whereas if you have a very high heart rate, and you are running quickly. It actually lowers the amount of fat that your are utilizing and in which case you want to be able to utilize as much fat as you can while running a marathon to be able to finish that distance. "