Archive note: This article relates to the 2023 Melbourne Marathon Festival. For current coaching details, pricing and availability, see Online Run Coaching.
Now is the perfect time to commence your training program for the 2023 Nike Melbourne Marathon Festival.
Marathon
If you are tackling the marathon this year, congratulations, you should already have a decent base of running under your belt. For the marathon we recommend an 18 week schedule to train well and run your best. Or at minimum a 12 week training block. The marathon is a long distance and requires a significant commitment to training and long runs to cover the distance well.
5km, 10km and Half Marathon
For the 5km, 10km and Half Marathon events we recommend a 12 week training plan. 12 weeks allows enough time to train all systems including:
- building your endurance,
- improving your lactate threshold pace,
- improving your VO2 Max and
- improving your speed and running form.
Twelve weeks is enough time to train specifically for the event and see improvement. If you can’t quite get 12 weeks in, you can still benefit following our running training for a minimum of 8 weeks before the event.
Current BEAM coaching
BEAM provides personal online coaching for committed runners, with a rolling training plan, proactive weekly review and clear Green / Amber / Red training status. Current pricing and availability are listed on the Online Run Coaching page.
About the author : Ben Mudie
Ben is the head coach at Beam Running. Ben first took up running in 2013 and it changed his life. He now wants to share that with others.
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Thanks Ben, was honestly everything I thought it would be. Was a lot of mental game from early on. Your advice really helped. I really stuck to the plan and the last 10km I just took it 1km at a time and knew I had enough left in the tank to keep going. It was such an overwhelming experience something I’ve never had felt in my life. Again thank you for everything, I know in myself I would never have achieved what I did without your help and training.
Thanks to an amazing running program by my coach Ben Mudie!!!
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK @ben_mudie for helping me with my training plan for @austrunningfest half mara… I did it! PB!
Having my runs set out each week is probably my favourite thing. It’s very nice not having to think about it, allows me to laser focus each session and get the most out of it