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Female-First Marathon Training Plan
About this plan
The whole plan points at one thing: your marathon. Across 16 weeks and roughly 6 hours a week, it builds you toward the full 26.2 mile marathon with nothing in there that does not earn its place.
Three weeks up, ease back, repeat: that rhythm is what makes the fitness stick. Intensity is rationed rather than sprayed around, every target reads off your own threshold pace and heart rate, and the plan gives your endurance, your pace and the durability to hold it late on the attention each one needs.
Do the work and you get to your marathon fit, confident and knowing your day is in hand.
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Common questions
Who is this plan for?
The rider or athlete targeting your marathon. It suits the full 26.2 mile marathon, for someone who can give it a fairly steady 6 hours most weeks.
How much training does it involve?
You are looking at 16 weeks and a lean 6 hours a week, arranged in three-week blocks that push and then recover so the fitness actually sticks.
How is the plan delivered?
A single payment drops the whole plan into TrainingPeaks for you, laid out session by session in plain English so nothing is left to guesswork.
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Female first, not female adapted
This plan is part of our female performance approach: a programme built for a female athlete from the start, with recovery-respecting structure and strength work for long-term bone and tendon health. See how we train female athletes.