SILVER LAKE TRACK CLUB
15 WEEK MARATHON + HALF MARATHON
TRAINING PLAN
Take it Easy, But Take It - LA Marathon 2025
Join the Silver Lake Track Club and prepare to conquer the Los Angeles Marathon on March 16, 2025, with a training philosophy rooted in responsibility, resilience, and love of movement and running.
Being a responsible athlete is essential to success. Responsibility is simply the ability to respond. The ability to let go of ego and be present. The ability to run with intentional kindness and love which is the best fuel for endurance and the best tool for shaping your competitive edges.The only thing you need for this plan is a good pair of running shoes and a lack of ego. Welcome to the Silver Lake Track Club.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, IDEAS? email us: silverlaketrackclub@gmail.com
FAQ FOR THE SLTC MARATHON AND HALF MARATHON TRAINING PLAN
Q: What do I need to start?
A: Running shoes and lack of ego.
Q: How do I know my marathon goal pace?
A: This is where base building comes in. You should spend 2-4 weeks running and getting a feel for your paces. Once you have 2+ weeks of run data on an app like Strava, average the paces vs miles and it should give you a minutes per mile average. Talk with SLTC run captains and meet SLTC runners at every run who have run full or half marathons before and we can help you figure out your goal pace for race day!
Q: How do I get the most out of this training plan?
A: Do your best to follow the training plan calendar. Prioritize sleep, meal nutrition and hydration. Meditate and visualize race success. Read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami.
Q: When I download the plan, it’s for a Marathon. How can I make this a Half Marathon Plan?
A: Do the plan but cut the Sunday miles in half.
Q: On some Rest Days, I might want to Cross Train. What can I do for Cross Training?
A: Not everyone has access to bike or pool but you can replace every other Friday or Monday with easy swim or easy bike ride. Find a local pool, it’s usually $5 to drop in for a swim or for a bike, rent a city bike and rock it out. It’s fun. Focus on elongating arms and legs by slowly reaching when you swim and full, round pedal strokes when cycling. This program is pretty straight forward strength and cross training directives and that is by design. Those days are for routine and basic building. Progressions can happen for run training, the weights and cross training should stay steady and predictable for a marathon training arc.
Q: What the hell is a Yasso 800 and how the hell do I run the workout?
Yasso 800s are a track workout that can help predict your marathon time. The Yasso 800s are a great speed workout for marathon runners and can be helpful for many runners, not just marathoners. Besides the physical benefits of speed work, Yasso 800s offer something that is hard to find in training — simplicity. The full Yasso workout is 800m x 10. Work and build toward that. Once you learn how to do Yasso 800s, you can do them any time and use them as a tool to improve your running speed and endurance. The theory is whatever pace you can run ten 800-meter intervals (in minutes) is a predictor for your marathon time (in hours). So if your goal marathon time is 4:00 hours, run your 800-meter repeats in 4:00 minutes with 4:00 minutes rest jog between each interval. Complete this workout and this predicts a marathon time of 4:00.
Q: I like the plan but the days don’t work for me.
A: Adjust the days but get the proposed weekly miles.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Here are suggestions from Maurten Fuel guide for common marathon training sessions
Maurten Fuel Guide: A good link to share that lists all sessions and fueling advice
https://www.maurten.com/fuelguide