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Hi lads, I have been reading this site for several months now with a view to a career in the RM. I've finally decided that the Marines seems ideal for me, All I need to do now is get my fitness levels up to standard. At the moment I am reasonably fit, I've got good upper body strength but what lets me down is my running. I'm running 1.5 miles on the road in 11.36 (sh**e I know). If I was to work on the essentials of the PRMC i.e. the 3 miler by just running it as often as possible, would that be a good way to get the running up to standard or bad for my health at the moment?!
Any help appreciated
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I know they always say "practice makes perfect", but there are usually quicker approaches.

Rather than concentrate on the 3 miles, I'd work on your 1.5 first. My main reason for this is that its been proven that a quick high intensity run is better for fat burning (if that's a problem) and vo2 max than a long low intensity run. In this sense, you'll get fitter quicker by doing 1.5 milers.

My old athletics coach used to say to me that the only way of getting faster at sprinting is to run faster than you've gone before. Doesn't make much sense until you take into account that you may not always be putting 100% effort in. Do at least 1-2 good sessions a week where you literally use all of your energy in the run. If you do 1.5 miles and you still have some energy left (i.e. you didn't pace yourself for a full burnout), then carry on running at a sprint/fast jog until you literally stary worrying about staying upright.

After you have your 1.5 mile time down to about 10mins then start bringing longer runs into it. However, rather than running 3 miles, try running 30mins. Otherwise the better you get the less you'll be training as you'll be doing it in quicker times.

Thanks for the info mate, I gave the 3mile run ago today anyway just to see the times i'm getting at the moment and 27 minutes 34 seconds is my PB . Alot of effort and ill hopefully knock the minutes off soon enough.
Cheers for your help mate
Nav

Set yourself a goal to achieve whilst running the three miles, once you have hit that goal then set another one. Tis the only way to improve. Also look into the possibility of finding a training partner as it will greatly benifit both you and your Oppo.

Artist

Thanks for the advice there mate, What would be a respectable time I should be hitting nearer to the PRMC anyway? Some of the lads on here are like bloody gazelles

I did read on this forum a while back about a training tool that can measure the distances your running. Not entirely sure on what the website was, can anyone point me in the right direction?
Nav

www.mapmyrun.com is good

Spot on, Thats exactly what I was looking for mate
Cheers for the help lads
Nav