Full Marathon Training Plan (Intermediate)

#marathontraining #marathon #londonmarathon
In this full marathon training plan I aim to give you the tools you need to tweak the plan to suit your own needs whilst giving you the structure you can follow to ensure you smash your race day goals.

This is a 25 week plan that can be adapted down to 17 weeks depending on current levels of fitness. You choose what works best for you. If times right and you start in November this can be used to get yourself to London Marathon in peak condition.

[intellect]

6 months ago I started this plan just to see how far through it I could get (longest I’d ran before was 8 and a half miles)… ended up making it through the whole thing, signed up for a marathon race 2 weeks ago, and finished in 3:47:21 yesterday as the youngest person in the race. Thank you for the great training plan and advice! :)

[tommcnally]

"you can't rush these things"

**David Goggins has entered the chat**

[enriquesamano]

That background music is like paprika on your jam sandwich

[iangillespie]

Just completed my first half marathon 2023/08/27 and it went perfectly as planned thanks to the training plan on This Messy Happy. Great running channel and thank you.😁

[barboravojtkova]

Thank you for a great tip! Will use this schedule for my first ever Marathon👏🏻

[twostepstovictory]

Just ran my first marathon last weekend following this plan☺️. Well following it until the half marathon point and after that my lazyness got the better of me with consistency. This really came back to haunt on the 30k mark on my marathon and I pretty much crawled to the finish line with a time of 5h 22min but I'm super happy that I managed to do it. In the future I'll less of an idiot and focus on consistency and I'm sure I'll hit the 4h mark next year. Thanks for the amazing running plans!☺️

[tictachikes]

I love these plans. I've done This Messy Happy 10K and HM plans (my HM will be tomorrow morning! 😁). I might jump into this one at week 13 after a recovery week.

[mariaseawell]

Thank you for the information 😊👍 I’m starting my training this week. Super helpful start!

[jamesrenwick]

Thanks Ben. Will use this training plan as I got a place for London in the nervous already.
Keep up the good work. Loving your vids👍🏻

[mlegrand]

Great video! I think this plan is going to help a lot of athletes. Keep up the good work! 👌

[GogglesTyresandTrainers]

Great video Ben, really like that plan.. hope it helps a lot of people achieve their marathon goal!
And you are completely right strength and conditioning.. don't miss them!

[carlstoakes]

Great.
Definitely agree with the rest day between runs. My legs always feel tired when they hit 40+ m/wk so this will I'm sure help.

[arnnguyen]

Great work. Love the opening scene. Sums it up nicely 😂

[brychjakub]

I've done my 16 weeks and ran a 3:51 marathon last Satturday, thanks for the plan! If I stuck with the plan better I might've had 10 minutes lower time :D

[carlneild]

Just finished Manchester Half Marathon on Sunday. I used your Half Marathon training guide for that, only missing one run (the first funnily enough) through the 12 week block. I'm a little big (108kg) and was originally running around 6 minute KM pace. Got down to around 102kg on the day and ended up running sub 2 hours (1:56).

Suffice to say, I'll be using this guide for the Marathon in April!!

Thanks bud.

[BeardyBoy]

Man great vibes and great videos.
Thanks a lot. I followed your six week training for the half marathon, from 0 running. And I already made 15 km at 5:22 pace. All thanks to you.
The half marathon is next Sunday 20th.

[Soraremaxwell]

Thanks for the plan! My 2021 goal is to run a marathon so I will use this plan and hopefully run a marathon in the summer!

[KnightmareZ]

You got the man with plan right here so let me come back in 25 weeks😎

[samuelwestbrook]

Completed the Brighton marathon + the extra distance the other week using this running plan and it was great, never felt like I couldn't finish at any point and got my target! 100% recommend

[cdh]

Thanks a lot!

I signed up for the Vienna Half Marathon in April and for the Amsterdam Marathon in October next year, so your schedule will surely be helpful!
It's about a year to go, but i rather take my time and get there well, than get injured (again) along the way.