Today’s question on Ask Coach Parry is another injury related question submitted by Tracey. She says she is planning to run the Pietermaritzburg Marathon.

Training is going well but she is prone to injury, so just doing 4 runs a week and trying to do just one long run on a weekend rather than back to back long runs.

She has done a few 24 / 25km long runs and planning on doing a 32km next week. Her weekly mileage is between 50 and 60km’s.

Is that long enough for the final long run or should she try and get a longer run in before she starts tapering? She is aiming between 4 and 4’20 for that marathon.

Brad Brown: Today’s question on Ask Coach Parry is another injury related question submitted by Tracey. She says she is planning to run the Pietermaritzburg Marathon.

Training is going well but she is prone to injury, so just doing 4 runs a week and trying to do just one long run on a weekend rather than back to back long runs.

She has done a few 24 / 25km long runs and planning on doing a 32km next week. Her weekly mileage is between 50 and 60km’s.

Is that long enough for the final long run or should she try and get a longer run in before she starts tapering? She is aiming between 4 and 4’20 for that marathon.

How to approach training

Lindsey Parry: Between 32km and 36km is enough km’s. Also taking into account her history and the fact that she is injury prone.

She has done the right thing splitting up her long runs – a very sensible approach. 4 days a week is enough and that 32km will be enough.

I would start to gradually cut back – don’t taper too sharply. The race is only on the 28th of February.

You will probably look to do a 25km the following week, and then a 20km. Then a 15km and then the race. So far thumbs up and she is doing it well.