Training for your first UltraMarathon is going to take a lot of guts.<\/p>\n
It requires motivation, a desire to accomplish a feat that not all people can attempt, and it requires you to have the physical ability to do so.<\/p>\n
Narrowing things down, you need motivation and a strong body to withstand running long distances for
\nseveral hours.<\/p>\n
However, anything is possible if you do the right preparations.<\/p>\n
We prepared the best training plan for you to prepare for something that not all people can even attempt, so make sure you follow it religiously.<\/p>\n
6 months of training is the bare minimum to get yourself ready for an UltraMarathon.<\/p>\n
And depending on your running experience, it can go longer.<\/p>\n
Before starting this training, you should be able to run for about an hour and increase your total distance by 5% or more each week.<\/p>\n
The early stages will focus on increasing your mileage by doing easy and long runs.<\/p>\n
The training should not be so intense, since you don\u2019t want to hurt yourself, so make sure you use these first two months in running slower but increasing the distance.<\/p>\n
At this next phase, you want to continue building up your mileage by doing easy runs and long runs.<\/p>\n
But this time, you will add one speed run per week to build up your speed, and one hill run to increase strength.<\/p>\n
Now that you have a good foundation of strength, speed, and endurance, it\u2019s time to put them to the test by adding train runs and back-to-back long runs.<\/p>\n
You should go a little bit easy on the training by decreasing your weekly runtime by 25% to reduce the injury risks before the big day.<\/p>\n
Use your recovery time to focus and build up your mindset to complete this incredible feat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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