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Getting Ready for a Marathon Smart training is everything when you're preparing for a marathon. Investing in a good pair of running shoes and a stopwatch to help with your pace are the basics but it's actually your heart rate that gives you an insight into

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Getting Ready for a Marathon
Smart training is everything when you're preparing for a marathon. Investing in a good pair of running shoes and a stopwatch to help with your pace are the basics but it's actually your heart rate that gives you an insight into your performance. With a Polar training computer you'll know exactly how well you're doing when you can see your exact running pace, distance, as well as heart rate.

If you've got your sights on completing a marathon you should start your preparation in time and set up a training program that you can stick with. To make the thought-process hassle free, we've created ready programs for you. They are all available as PDF. In addition, those with an ambitious marathon target can even download a training program that can be transferred to a compatible Polar training computer via Polar ProTrainer 5 training software. Just go to Polar Training Plan Bank and pick up the right one for you.

The general idea of each program is to steadily increase your training distance for each run, to add a bit more work for each new week. This way you'll get accustomed to increasing exertion needed in marathon training. The last week before the marathon the programs will guide you to ease on the load, to do light intensity jogging or just walking so that you can save your energy for the big day. Training too hard will not only do your body a disservice, it will also take the joy out of running and increase the threshold of participating in a marathon.

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Take Your Marathon Training Online
Do you sometimes find it hard to know if you're ready for today's training session or whether you are going at it too intensely after the long run you did last weekend? We offer you a free web service, the polarpersonaltrainer.com, to track your runs online. It gives you simple Training Load guidance and helps you find the perfect balance between rest and training by showing your cumulative training load with individual color indication for each weekday.

Easy-to-understand color codes tell you when you will have recovered enough to go for your next run. With Training Load you can avoid over training, which is always the danger when preparing for a marathon. By using the polarpersonaltrainer.com you'll optimize your training intensity and recovery times and reduce the risk of exhausting yourself. Try it out and let it help you on your road to marathon success.

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Did You Know?
What goes forgotten too often: there's more to marathon training than just running. You should start every session with a proper warm-up to prepare your muscles for the long runs. When you're cooling down after the session, decrease your heart rate slowly and walk around to help your muscles remove the lactic acid from your body. This should reduce the soreness on the following days. Also, remember to stretch your muscles before the run to improve circulation and blood flow and after every run to improve recovery time. Keep the stretches nice and gentle. If you feel pain, you've stretched too far.

Come marathon day, you may want to skip the warm-up to save energy. Instead, start your run slowly – even at speed that feels too slow – for the first 20 minutes. Doing this will help your fat metabolism kick in better and work for you throughout the whole marathon. This way you can save them precious carbs and get much of your running energy from fats. The run will be a lot easier this way.

And don't worry if you drop behind at first, you will have plenty of time to catch up when the others get exhausted.

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