If you give yourself enough time to train for the distance, you can successfully add the necessary distance to your long runs to be ready for the race. You know you are ready to train for a half marathon as your race if:
We want to address these imbalances though because while our body will find a work around and compensate this often times these can put extra stress on other muscle groups that aren’t designed to receive that kind of strain which when overloaded over course of many miles can lead to injuries.
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We covered training variation and major training approaches with our high school summer running campers. We talked about the difference between easy, tempo, interval, fartlek, and long runs and why they’re each valuable for different reasons.
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