Fall Half Marathon Training Has Begun

Fleet Feet’s Charleston’s fall half marathon training is starting soon! Programs in Summerville and Mount Pleasant start in late August. Our program looks to take all runners of all paces and prepare them to run a half-marathon in November.

This years fall half marathon is the Parkway Subaru Battleship Half Marathon in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is on Sunday, November 16th.

Depending on which program you sign up for (Mount Pleasant or Summerville, there is no difference in training), you will meet on Tuesdays (Mount Pleasant) or Wednesdays (Summerville) at 6:30pm with both locations meeting on Saturdays at 7:30 am.

During the program, our coaches will focus on a variety of things that will help any runner improve their overall time. Weekday meetings will focus more on speed training, while Saturday meetings are focused more on length of run. You will also be assigned homework tempo runs meant to help with your overall time running.

The program will also looks to inform the runner in areas like:

• Form
• Nutrition
• Injury prevention

Mentors will also be available to aid anyone in running in ways that coaches can’t. They bridge the gap between coaches and members of the program! Every pace group is assigned a mentor that will be with you every step of the way.

This year our coaches are:

• Carter (Mount Pleasant): Carter wants to emphasize training in a group. Training in a group makes the grind that much easier, as it allows everyone to keep each other accountable throughout the process. It is one of the best parts of our Half Marathon Training!
• Joelle (Mount Pleasant): Joelle wants to highlight the program mentors, who assist the coaches in improving the whole group together.
• Will (Summerville): Will wants to remind everyone that the program is more then just running, its finding a group of runners that have similar goal to you and becoming friends.

If you’re interested and want to learn more please check out our webpage for MTP/WA and SVL/Carnes for dates and times of our interest meetings and when the programs offically kick off.