Originally Posted by
eschab89
Would you mind sharing what your marathon training looked like post-Starting Strength? I'm a marathon runner. I've considered taking a break from running for a few months and doing Starting Strength with the hopes of then going back to marathon training and achieving the same kind of improvements to my time that you did. I've bought the Starting Strength book, but I really can't find any resources on how to integrate both lifting and running once the linear progression is done.
I don't need your exact program (although it'd be nice if you had that), but some of the basic principles would help me out a lot. Some questions that come to mind: 1) How many days per week did you lift and how many did you run? 2) Obviously, you wouldn't be able to add weight to bar each workout anymore, how did you measure what a "good" lifting workout was, and did you stick to 3 sets of 5, or add in more lifting workouts with lower weight/higher reps? 3) Did you do any tempo/interval runs or was it all endurance work (since lifting would theoretically achieve the same goals as speed work), and how long were your "long runs"? 4) Did you stick to the four Starting Strength lifts or add/replace any of them with other types of lifts? 5) Should I expect my bodyweight at the end of marathon training to be closer to my pre- or post-Starting Strength weight or somewhere right in the middle (like you, I'd be starting out pretty thin, and "doing the program" correctly would likely require me to put on 40-50 lbs)?
I'd appreciate any help you can offer, and if there's some resource out there on this specific topic that I just haven't found yet, I'd really appreciate you sharing that.