It could be the morning or the evening, the shorter runs during the week, the longer runs as the weekend. So, the same way you would make an appointment with the dentist, make an appointment to run. “The important thing here is to have some sort of schedule. Hackett has designed many individual marathon training plans over the years and all stress the importance of keeping a training diary.īrendan Hackett recently guided Ballymun Kickhams to the Dublin title. And all the while the framework is building strength, and the engine is also starting to adjust with it.” After every three weeks, if you’ve been increasing to 45 miles, or 50 miles, for the fourth week, take a step back, drop back to week two, which gives the body the chance to recover, and advance. If you take week one, then the overall for week two, no one run should increase by no more than 10 per cent, and likewise, the weekly mileage total should not increase by more than 10 per cent. Hackett, like me, still talks in old money, as in miles, so metric-lovers beware: “So these next few months are about gradually building up the stress on the framework, by gradually increasing the mileage. So to avoid that, the most important thing is getting the frame used to running, by slowly increasing and adding miles.” “The biggest pitfall at this early stage is stressing the framework too much or too soon and getting injured. “The framework, as in the bones and the attachments, and then the engine, as in the heart and the respiratory system. “For any running purposes, particularly the marathon, the first thing to do is break the body into two parts,” he says. It helps, naturally, that Hackett has also run several marathons – including Boston, New York and London – and is well trained in sports psychology too.
We go back a bit and used to share some very long runs in the Dublin Mountains before gravity warned us off: Hackett has coached several elite Irish runners over the years, including James Nolan and Maria Lynch, and has also served his time coaching Gaelic football, including senior inter-county roles with Longford, Offaly and Westmeath, and more recently he managed Ballymun to the Dublin title. Which is the first thing Brendan Hackett tells me too, and he needs to know what he’s talking about, because he is the coaching expert for this year’s Irish Life Dublin Marathon, with the role of supporting the full range of runners on their journey to the start line.
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