Fitness

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Training for my first half marathon. I’ve got about four months. Any advice from experienced runners? Things you wished you knew before you ran your first marathon / half marathon?

controversial take - run 5km repeats instead of trying to constantly up the miles (just do longer run 1x/week)
Running shorter distances faster and faster builds your lung capacity and ability to run for longer

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Running 5km is not anaerobic fitness

That's short intense sprints

5km is aerobic fitness and pushing the barriers on that distance is going to increase capacity for longer (aerobic) distances

Agreed that this is controversial 😅 

Running short distances faster helps you run short distances faster (anaerobic)

Running longer distances helps you run longer distances (aerobic). Ideal training plan has a mix of both but if this is your first half marathon imo it's better to run longer and slower more often

the other thing is to learn running technique. most people think they automatically know how to do it but end up moving v inefficiently and so wasting energy (and more likely to get injured). it's worth spending some time  - when I started my form was terrible and I didn't know

Thank you for the tip :) speed work definitely seems important and will incorporate that once I feel more comfortable with my base / have increased mileage a bit.