I mean, really?
Week one?
Not going to happen!
(LSD stands for "Long, Slow, Distance" by the way, it's not some weird drug-fuelled run)
Anyway, there's no way I can run 10 miles on my first week, I would probably seriously injure myself. The maximum I can do at the moment is four. I suspect that although this is the "beginner" marathon training, it assumes that people are already at half marathon level, which I'm not.
The safest method is to add 10% to your weekly mileage, so for example last week I ran:
| Day | Run Type | Distance |
| Sunday | Rest | |
| Monday | Recovery | 2.6 miles |
| Tuesday | Rest | |
| Wednesday | Fartlek | 2.4 miles |
| Thursday | Recovery | 3 miles |
| Friday | Rest | |
| Saturday | Distance | 4 miles |
| Total | 12 miles |
*I'll write about Fartlek's another time, it's such a fun word!
That means this week I can add 10% of 12 miles, or 1.2 miles to my total weekly run. At this point I'm happy with what I'm running on the weekdays, so I'll aim to keep everything else pretty much the same, and up my Saturday distance to 5 miles.
I'll keep doing this, week on week, until my total weekly mileage is 23 miles, which would mean that the week after is 25 miles, or week one of the actual marathon training,
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