Ten Weeks of Training – Prep Yourself for this Year’s Mini Marathon with this Handy Guide

We’ve paired up with the Irish Cancer Society to create The Pink Brigade, a team made up of Her.ie staffers and our fab readers, who will run, walk or jog all over cancer in this year’s Flora Women’s Mini Marathon! 

We’d love for you to join us, you can find all the info you need right here, drop us a line and we’ll include you on our email list for training tips, inspirational stories and much more – and we’ll all work towards our June goal together!

For now, we’re on week five of our ten-week training schedule. What you get out of the day itself is entirely dependent on what you put in, so every week right here we’ll be upping the training ever so slightly to get you ready for the challenge.

 

Week 5

 

For Walkers: 

Train three days a week.

Day one: Walk for 35 minutes at a brisk pace.

Day two: Alternative exercise - try a dance class

Day three: Walk for 40 minutes, try the same route as day one but increase the pace slightly and better your time and distance covered.

 

For Joggers: 

Train three days a week.

Day one: Walk for 5 minutes, stretch for 5, jog for 35 and walk for another 10.

Day two: Alternative exercise - try horse-riding

Day three: Walk 10 minutes, stretch 5/10 minutes, jog for 35 minutes (increasing the speed somewhat from day one) and walk for another 10 minutes.

 

For Runners:

Train three days a week.

Day one: Walk 5 minutes, stretch for 5, run for 35, walk for 5, stretch for 5.

Day two: Walk 5 minutes, stretch for 5, run for 20 (faster pace than day 1), walk for 5, stretch for 5.

Day three: Walk 5 minutes, stretch for 5, run for 35 (increase pace from days one and two slightly), walk for 5, stretch for 5. 

 

Check back here next week for part six and follow our training guide all the way up to June!