Marathon Families
With schools being closed and people being asked to stay at home except for vital reasons such as exercise it can be difficult to stay active, especially if you have children at home. Why not take this opportunity to challenge your whole family to complete a Marathon together, whether that is all of you doing a marathon each or doing one as a group?
Marathon Families is an adaptation of the extremely popular MarathonKids Programme that is rolled out across Dublin with 5th and 6th Class Children. Over an 8 week period Children complete a full 42km marathon and a series of in class lessons on the benefits of Sport and Physical Activity.
The Programmes
MarathonFamilies can be completed in 4 ways:
7 Days a week
The 7 day programme will see participants walking/jogging shorter distances each day of the week over 8 weeks to complete the entire 42km. The 7 day programme is ideal for people starting their fitness journey, we'd encourage you to walk/jog the distances each day.
5 Days a week
The 5 day programme will see participants jogging medium length distances 5 days of the week. Like the other options it will take 8 weeks to complete the Marathon. The 5 day programme is aimed at people who are somewhat active and have a history of regular training.
3 Days a week
The 3 day programme targets participants who are active and training regularly. The target is to complete 3 runs a week, the distances range from medium to long and over the 8 weeks you will complete the 42km Marathon.
Express Programme
If your time is limited or you have small children why not do an express version of MarathonFamilies, the Express Version rewards everyone’s efforts, whether big or small, by doing a cumulative version amongst your family. So, for example if you decide to do it over a week it is 42km in one week, 2 weeks is 21km per week, 3 weeks is 14km etc etc, tailor it to suit your family’s needs.
How to get started?
Getting started is easy, register below, pick your desired training programme, print off the distances and run tracker page and off you go.
What do you need?
You'll need a comfortable pair of runners and a way to track your run each day. If you have a smart watch/phone you should have an app available that will do that for you. if not, you can use websites like map my run to pick a route the distance you need.
Registration
MarathonKids is free to everyone, all you have to do is register using the registration form below to get the training programme you're looking to do.