Half Marathon Training Schedule - Advanced | 12 Weeks

RACE 13.1 TRAINING
Half Marathon • Advanced • 12-Week Plan
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About This Training Plan
The Advanced Half Marathon 12-week training plan is designed for the runner who has completed many half marathon races and looks to improve upon
a personal best. This plan places a special emphasis on a steady progression of mileage while touching on several different types of workouts ranging
from anaerobic threshold repeats, to hill strides, to VO2 max repeats at race pace coupled with various sessions that focus on speed work. A good portion of the workouts are high in volume and involve continuous running at varied paces to adapt to the race distance.
If off days are needed for recovery, it is recommended those follow the day of a workout.
Who Should Do This Plan
This plan is for anyone who has already completed this distance and is looking to improve. We recommend that you are already comfortable running
at least six times a week before beginning this training plan. If you want to add different elements to your training in preparation for running a personal
best, then this is the plan for you!
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RACE 13.1 TRAINING
Half Marathon • Advanced • 12-Week
WEEK 6
WEEK 5
WEEK 4
WEEK 3
WEEK 2
WEEK 1
1
2
3
4
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run: 4 miles (optional)
complete at long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
complete at long run pace
Run: 4 miles (optional)
complete at long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run: Hill Strides
8 x 150 meters uphill (150 meters or
30 seconds, whichever is shortest.
Recovery: jog/walk back down
the hill.
Run: Warm Up
5 min. easy jog and stretch
Run: Temp Run -‐5 miles
3 mile tempo
5 minutes easy
2 mile tempo
(see note 6 below)
Run: Cool Down
15 min. easy jog and stretch
Run: Tempo Run
2 miles easy
3 sets:
12 min. tempo run
2 min jog recovery
2 miles easy
Run: Marathon Pace
1 mile Easy Pace
5 sets:
7 min. at Half Marathon Pace
3 min. easy pace
1 mile Easy Pace
Run: 4 miles
complete at long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run: Strides
8 x 300 meters (VO2 max pace)
1:30 min. rest between strides
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run: 3 miles
complete at long run pace
Run -‐ Marathon Pace: Ladder
workout: 11 miles
4 miles Half Marathon Pace
1 mile/Easy Long Run Pace
3 miles Half Marathon Pace
1 mile/Easy Long Run Pace
2 miles Tempo Pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐5 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐ Medium Long Run
Run -‐6 miles (optional)
complete at long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
5
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run: Ins & Outs (see note 1 below)
4 laps of Ins/Outs
(stride the straight, jog the curve)
Run: Cool Down
10 min. easy jog and stretch
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy Run -‐ 2 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run: Hill Strides
8 x 150 meters uphill (150 meters or
30 seconds, whichever is shortest.
(see note 4 below)
Run: Cool Down
7 min. easy jog and stretch
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐5 miles
complete at long run pace
6
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Long Run: Easy
Run -‐7 miles
complete at long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run: Warm Up
7 min. easy jog and stretch
Run: Progression -‐8 miles (see note 5 below)
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
7
Run -‐ Long Run: Easy
Run -‐5 miles
complete at long run pace
Run: Cool Down
7 min. easy jog and stretch
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐5 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Long Run: Easy
Run -‐9 miles
complete at long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐5 miles
complete at long run pace
Run -‐ Long Run: Easy
Run -‐10 miles
complete at long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐ Long Run: Easy
Run -‐11 miles
complete at long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐5 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Medium Long Run
Run -‐7 miles (optional)
complete at long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Medium Long Run
Run -‐7 miles (optional)
complete at long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run: Ins & Outs (see note 1 below)
4 laps of Ins/Outs
(stride the straight, jog the curve)
(see note 8 below)
Run: 5 miles
complete at long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
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RACE 13.1 TRAINING
Half Marathon • Advanced • 12-Week
WEEK WEEK 162
WEEK WEEK 151
WEEK WEEK 140
WEEK 93
WEEK 82
WEEK 71
1
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 5 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 5 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 5 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
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3
4
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Run: medium iles (optional)
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Run: medium iles (optional)
Run -‐4 M
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You can take a rest day if you need it
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3
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(see note 6 below)
Run: Cool Down
15 min. easy jog and stretch
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30-‐45 seconds slower than
Recovery/Rehab:
long run pace
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run: iles Run: Easy
Run -‐4 R m
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30-‐45 seconds slower than
Recovery/Rehab:
long run pace
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐5 4 miles iles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Recovery/Rehab:
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 5 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Medium Long Run
Run -‐7 5 miles (optional)
complete at long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
5
Run ecovery Run: -‐7 R m
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Run -‐3 miles
complete at long run pace
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run: Ins & Outs (see note 1 below)
4 laps of Ins/Outs
(stride the straight, jog the curve)
Run: Cool Down
10 min. easy jog and stretch
Run ecovery Run: -‐6 R m
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Run: Cool Down (see note 2 below)
Stretch/Recover 7 min. easy jog and stretch
Run -‐ R
6 ecovery miles Run: Easy
Run -‐5 miles
complete at long run pace
complete at long run pace
6
Run -‐ Long Run: Easy
Run -‐5 mm
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11 iles
complete at long run pace
Run -‐ Long Run: Easy
Run -‐7 mm
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12 iles
complete at long run pace
Run: arm RUun: p Easy
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easy ilesjog and stretch
complete at long run pace
Run: Progression -‐8 miles (see note 5 below)
Run: Cool Down
7 min. easy jog and stretch
7
Recovery/Rehab:
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
-‐5 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 5 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Recovery/Rehab:
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐3 5 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐ R
6 ecovery miles Run: Easy
Run -‐5 miles complete at (loptional)
ong run pace
30-‐45 seconds slower than
Run: long H
run ace
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8 x 150 meters uphill, recovery:
jog/walk back (see note 4 below)
Run -‐ Long Run: Easy
Run -‐9 mm
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10 iles
complete at long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Run -‐5 3m
miles
iles
complete at long run pace
Run -‐ Long Run: Easy
Run -‐10 miles
complete at long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 3 miles (optional)
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Run Recovery Run: -‐W
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Run meiles 5 m-‐5 in. asy (optional)
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30-‐45 seconds slower than
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Run: Ins & Outs (see note 1 below)
4 laps of Ins/Outs
(stride the straight, jog the curve)
(see note 8 below)
Run -‐ Recovery Run: Easy
Run -‐4 miles
30-‐45 seconds slower than
long run pace
Run: Run -‐5 4 m
miles
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complete at long run pace
You can take a rest day if you need it
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3 mmiles
c3omplete at long run ptace
0-‐45 seconds slower han
long run pace
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Recovery/Rehab:
Stretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
Recovery/Rehab:
Run: Cool Down
S5tretch/Recover (see note 2 below)
min. easy jog and stretch
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RACE 13.1 TRAINING
Half Marathon • Advanced • 12-Week
Training Notes
1) Best performed on a standard, 400-meter oval track. Straightaways = 100 meters. Curves = 100 meters. Workout is designed to be a
continuous run. Stride pace should be equal to your VO2 max threshold pace, while the curves are jogged at an easy run pace. Click here
to calculate your VO2 max click the ‘training tab’ and use the ‘threshold’ pace.
2) Stretch/Recover: Foam Roll IT Band, quadriceps, hamstrings, calves, hip flexors, glute muscles and spend extra time on sore areas.
Stretch these muscles and spend extra time on sore areas. Icing sore areas can also speed recovery but should not be overused (2x/day
for 12 minutes is sufficient). Click here for more information on how to use a foam roller.
3) Tempo Repeats by definition: This is an easier form of the tempo run, typically used when first establishing tempo days early in a training plan or on weeks (i.e. race week) when a tempo workout is called for. Tempo repeat workouts are usually the same volume as the
run but broken up into smaller bouts of work. For example, 4 x 1 mile at your tempo pace with 1 minute recovery is a good substitute for
a 4-mile tempo run. The recovery is not active, meaning you do not need to be running/jogging between repetitions, as is the case with a
Fartlek workout. Click here to learn more about what a fartlek workout is.
4) 150 meters or 30 seconds-whichever is shortest; each repetition should be completed at mile race pace. Recovery: jog or walk back
down the hill. Note your VO2 max ‘race paces’ on the ‘race paces’ tab if you do not know your one mile race pace.
5) It will be helpful to begin first mile at around 1 minute above your threshold pace (note your pace for #1) and slowly chip down to that
pace by the last mile. A progression run by definition: Typically, an ideal progression run will average about 20-25 seconds per mile slower
than a tempo (anaerobic threshold) run and be 2 to 2 ½ times the length. For example, someone doing their 3-mile tempo runs at 5:00 per
mile (15:00) should be able to do a 6 mile progression run at 5:25 per mile (32:05).
6) Track Workout: 2 miles easy (can be off the track), 8 x (800 meters tempo pace (note V02 max ‘race paces’)/800 meters easy pace), 2
miles easy (should be off the track). Switch directions on the track to ease stress on inside leg.
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