Question for you serious runners out there

[cwydro]

Currently I run about 4 miles a day, and 5 on weekends. Do you think it is possible to build up to a half marathon by January 28th?

Suggestions, training tips welcomed.

Runner's World talks a lot about training for marathons, but not for half marathons.

[likesmountains 52]

1. I am not sure I'm qualified as a serious runner...but if you can already run

10 miles on a weekend I would think that by adding the recommended 10% at a time to your runs you could go for the half without too much to worry about. Or you could check this link...good luck
I am doing my first half in January also, but plan to be ok with walking parts of it..
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-244-258-9369-0,00.html

[cwydro]

2. Hey thanks

The most I have ever run is 7 miles...at least recently. When I was in college, many moons ago, I ran 10 miles without a problem. Today I ran probably 5 and felt good...could have gone for two more, but it was so damn windy and cold I wussed out.

Will check out that article now. And thanks for the encouragement. I think I'm just intimidated by the distance...and I'm a middle of the packer...so it will be a long couple of hours or so.

[Langis]

3. I'm on a training plan for a half on Jan. 14th

I'm currently up to 3-5 mile short runs and 7-8 mile long runs. So I don't see why you couldn't do it. You are almost to where I am and you have two extra weeks of training time.

[likesmountains 52]

4. See ya at the P.F. Chang Rock n Roll? Me too!

[cwydro]

6. I wish...

naw, this one is the Half Shell Raw Bar Half Marathon in Key West.:hi:

[cwydro]

7. Hey thanks for the encouragement

I think I went out for too many long runs too fast...I'm getting a little pang of plantar fascitis (sp?) in my right foot...so I took the last two days off. Been cross training on my bike, but doesn't seem the same. I feel like I need some real distance just to get over my feeling nervous at that mileage, ya know? Gonna go out tomorrow and see how it goes.

[MissMillie]

5. every thing I've every read says that training to make a new distance means

adding 10% to your run every week.

If you're running 4 miles a day now, next week it should be 4.4. The week after that, it should be 4.84, week after that 5.3, then 5.8, then 6.4, then 7.05.... sounds to me like the answer is no.

However, I know that when I was training for my 10K, the rule of thumb was that if I could run 4 miles a day regularly, on any given day I could pull a 6.2 mile run out of my hat.

I don't know how high the daily run would need to be for a 13.1 mile exception. You will be your own best judge of that, I think.

[cwydro]

8. Yep. You have heard exactly what I have.

They say (whomever THEY are) that if you can run 3 mles, then you can run twice or three times that...and so on...but I'm not so sure. I think it is Runners World that usually says this, so I gues they know what they're talking about. The most I've run is the 7 mile bridge race down here and I made sure I could run 7 miles before I ever did that. Always amazes me that they (them again) say you can run a marathon if you can run 20 miles. Hell, that is another 10K on top of that! I guess I need to go and and just see how far I can run.

Thanks for your answer...I need all the feedback I can get!