Marathon Training Log

A marathon training log is one of the most important aspects of your training sessions.

When you are training for a marathon it will take you between 3-6 months of training to be at a level to complete your marathon, depending on your fitness levels prior to the race. This may seem like a long time, however keeping a marathon training log is one of the easiest ways to keep your motivation going during the build-up phase of training.

The reason for this is that by taking a glance at your marathon training log you will be able to see just how far you have come. You will be able to see just how many miles you have covered in your training sessions to date and you will also get a sense of your commitment to wanting to finish a marathon.

Your marathon training log should be specific to what you want to get out of your marathon. Some items to include when logging your training sessions is obviously the date of your training session, how many miles you covered and how long it took you to complete the distance.

However, apart from this you may also want to include in your marathon training log other factors such as the terrain, the weather conditions, how much effort you thought you put into the session, your weight and even comments you want to record for yourself.

For example, just say you went out and did a 10 mile training session, you would record the date you did this session and the time it took you to complete the session. However, if you were running a hilly circuit and it was pouring rain then your training time would obviously be worse than normal. This is why it is important to record other factors in your marathon training log because it gives you a sense of how your time may be slower for the mileage you covered.

It is also a good idea to record your comments on your training session. For example, you may notice that you enjoy training in the mornings better than the evenings, that you had a late night the night before and this effected your performance for that session, that you felt fresh because you had followed the routine or that you noticed that running with a straight posture improved your performance and made it easier to run.

The idea here is that during your training sessions you can experiment to find a routine that works for you so that when it comes to the actual marathon race there are no surprises. You have simply tweaked your performance and know how to prepare to get the most out of your marathon.

The other great aspect of keeping a marathon training log in the lead up to your marathon is that you are able to look back and see just how far you have come. For example, during the last 3-4 weeks before your marathon you should be in the taper period. This means that each week you will be training fewer miles. It is common during this period that you could start to worry that you are not training enough to finish your marathon. However, if you go back and study your marathon training log you will have evidence that you have in fact been putting in the mileage to more than finish a marathon.

The other important point is to fill out your marathon training log as soon as you finish your training session. The reason for this is that if you let it slip you will tend to forget how many miles you trained and how long it took you to train those miles. However, if you fill out your marathon training log as soon as you complete your training session then you will have done whole and complete work and later be able to look back on just how far you have come when either your motivation is lacking or you are questioning whether you have done enough miles to finish your marathon.

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