Week Four

It's week four of our Couch to Marathon training program. By the end of this week, you'll have been on the program for a whole month! Are you starting to feel like a runner yet?

With week four comes more distance-based running, but this week it should be easier to calculate the distances. You'll be running in 1/4 mile increments. Many trails (such as the Cochran Shoals trail mentioned last week in the Running Terrain article) are marked off by the quarter mile.

You can still run by time, if you don't have distances marked off. Remember to go at your own pace and do the three key stretching exercises that were introduced over the past three weeks (Calf, Quad, and Hamstring).

Click below to see this week's trainig plan.



Curious as to what lies ahead? The next four weeks will take us up to our first race week. You're almost half-way to a 5k! See a preview of weeks 5 through 8 below.