12 WEEK HALF MARATHON Finishing Time Goal Training Plans • All About Marathon Training

These 12 Week Half Marathon Training Plans will give you the training roadmap to a specific half marathon finishing time goal!

Focusing on building strength and speed with an overall emphasis on increasing your running fitness and ultimately endurance using these training plans.

THESE TRAINING PLANS EACH CONTAIN 3 TRAINING PHASES:

✅ A Strength Building Phase

✅ A Speed Training Phase

✅ A Taper Phase

💪WEEKS 1 THROUGH 3 ARE STRENGTH AND TEMPO TRANSITIONING WEEKS

During these 3 weeks your focus will be on:

Getting into your training plan and sticking to the schedule
Running a weekly hill repeats workout in order to build strength to dive into the speed training
Build your “long run” while practicing your goal race pace for 1 to 2 miles during that long run

🏃‍♀️WEEKS 4 THROUGH 11 ARE YOUR INCREASING ENDURANCE + SPEED BUILDING PHASE

During Weeks 4-11, your training will include:

A weekly tempo run to help you build speed endurance which will allow you to run faster paces for a longer period of time
A weekly interval workout to really help you train at and nail your goal race pace for the half marathon
Building your endurance through the ever increasing long run each week.

🏅WEEK 12 IS YOUR TAPER AND RACE WEEK!

That Half Marathon finish line is in sight and in your grasp!

HERE ARE THE RUNNING WORKOUTS THAT ARE SCHEDULED IN EACH TRAINING PLAN THAT WILL HELP YOU REACH YOUR PEAK PERFORMANCE:

✅ Easy Short Runs

✅ Hill Repeats

✅ Tempo Runs

✅ Interval Workouts

✅ Long Runs (Goal Race Pace Style Long Runs)

✅ Cross Training

✅ Rest Days

👇ONE OF THESE TRAINING PLANS ARE FOR YOU IF:

You can comfortably run at least 4 miles.