Increase Marathon Training

Here's a simple tip for increasing your training and avoiding injury:

Most injuries occur when athletes increase their weekly training too rapidly. This places strain and added stress on your muscles, tendons and ligaments because they are not used to the impact of training so many miles.

A simple rule here is the 10% rule - in that you should not increase your training by more than 10% in any given week. The idea here is that it gives your body the chance to recover from the additional stresses as your weekly mileage increases.

"The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move." -- John Wooden

You have your goal - you want to run a marathon. You've started - you're reading and
researching. But when are you going to take action? If not today, when? You can do this! Just
take the next step. It's inevitable. Go here now:

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