Training for the Boston Marathon
Custom Training Plans Specifically Designed to Help You Conquer The Boston Marathon
How This Plan is Different?
If you’re racing Boston with the goal of recording a PR or running your best time, knowing how to target your training specifically to the demands of the course is essential.
You need to prepare your legs for the demanding hills, develop your patience for the early miles, and prepare for the quad-pounding downhill finish.
Based on your training, current fitness and previous race results, we will analyze your specific strengths and weaknesses to develop a strategy to help you run your best race on this tough course.
We’ve helped over 500 runners train for the Boston Marathon in the last 2 years alone and now we’re ready to help you too!
Here's a Look At Everything Included
Custom Boston Training Schedule
A completely customized schedule based on your ability level, current training, age and goals. Plus, course-specific workouts and guidance for every run, including specific paces and instructions for why and how-to.
Nutrition and Race Fueling
Complete nutrition course for runners with what to eat befor and after all your runs. Plus, race fueling program to calculate exactly how much fuel you'll need to finish the race without bonking and get a customized fueling plans based on the gels and fluids you want to take.
Weekly Zoom Calls
Meet your teammates and coaches on our weekly Zoom calls. You can ask your questions and review your training. Calls are optional and you'll be able to submit questions ahead of time and watch recorded versions if you can't make it live.
Injury Prevention & Treatment
Schedule adjustments if you start to feel an injury. Plus full treatment, rehab cross training and injury prevention plans built into your schedule when needed so you don't lose progress and know exactly what to do each day.
Customized Running Strength Exercises
Strength workouts built into your plan each day and completely customized to your ability level, current training, age and goals. No gym needed, although there are options for those that have or want to use one.
Unlimited Schedule Adjustments
Ongoing schedule adjustments based on your progress throughout the plan, tune-up races, and weekly schedule changes (like travel, work or family). That means your paces will always be your physiological optimum and workouts will always be adapted to your progress.
Private Group of Runners Training for Boston
We'll connect you with a small-group team of runners also training for the race to help make training for the race a team-like experience and making this training cycle even more fun!
Train With Your Favorite Watch or App
Our plans directly export your workouts to your favorite devices (such as Garmin) and run tracking phone apps so you have your exact workout, paces and instructions while you're running.
How We Write & Deliver Your Custom Schedule
Your training schedule is custom created and meticulously written just for you. We take data from your previous training, current PRs, best training days and develop a personalized training schedule that is uniquely suited for your work/life schedule, strengths and your weaknesses to ensure you get the most of your running.
How Our Coaches Help Guide Your Training
We use our team of expert coaches to help answer your questions, adjust your training, and keep you accountable. You can ask questions in our private stream, post questions when you log your workouts, and interact with us during the live calls.
Strength Work Built Into Your Plan
Your training integrates strength work into your schedule – not just throws it on top. You’ll know exactly what you need to do each day of the week. Moreover, the strength work is progressive (building you up and not remaining static) and targeted to your specific race distance.
Explanations and Guidance for Every Workout
Each one of your workouts comes with a specific explanation of why you’re doing that session and an in-depth article on how to execute should you have any questions. This helps you understand how every run fits together and instills belief and confidence in your training.
Motivation, Accountability and Consistency to Stay on Track
Our platform helps to keep you motivated by connecting you to a support system of other runners like you who are there to encourage you after a tough workout, send a congrats after a new milestone, and keep you on track when you want to skip a run. Your training plan also has built-in features to help you keep your eyes on the prize!
Injury Prevention And Treatment
Get a step-by-step plan to identify your weaknesses and where you’re susceptible to injury (and how to fix). If you’re already injured, you’ll get a day-by-day treatment and rehab plan as well.
Nutrition Guidance and Access to All Premium Courses
Your training comes with a complete nutrition course to teach you what and how to eat to lose weight, fuel for your training, fuel during the race, stay healthy, and more. Plus, it you have access to all of our premium courses like how to improve your running form, active stretching, kettlebells and more.
Easily Export Your Workouts
We know what it’s like to be a busy runner, so our schedules and platform make it easy to stick to your training. Receive daily text reminders of your workouts, import your workouts into your favorite watch, calendar or app, and easily export your data so your coaches can analyze. Now you can fit training smart around your busy life!
See an Example Schedule
Giving an example schedule is actually very difficult because we custom write all of our plans. That means no two training schedules will look alike.
The example schedule here is a brief overview, mainly focused on our philosophy and how it would apply to training. The mileage numbers and workouts are not what you would be asked to run. Your plan would be custom written for you based on your experience level and goals.
Hi, we’re the team at RunnersConnect
Here’s how we can help you
We’ve been coaching runners since 2009, one of the first companies to actually start “online coaching for runners”.
We started because we saw a lot of runners struggling to improve using “template plans” or even purchased plans that were really just a styled PDF and generalized for anyone.
Runners like you want, and should have, a training plan that takes into account your age and training history, adapts based on how you progress, and can adjust when “life” happens.
We believe these are critical to your long-term progression and success as well. It’s one of our fundamental pillars – no one-size training plan fits all.
Throughout our years of coaching, we’ve learned a lot about what works, what doesn’t, and which successes for we’ve had for our athletes can be duplicated. We’re excited to pass on all our knowledge to you!
What started as emailing excel sheets back and forth to our athletes has now become one of the most robust, running-specific training and coaching platforms based on athlete feedback, such as including explanations for the “why” of every workout, adding custom, race-specific strength exercises directly into your schedule, and including nutrition and injury information as part of your training plan.
We’re ready to help you become a fitter, faster runner and crush your next race (and beyond)!
Our Plan Options
We offer 2 types of plans to best suit your training needs.
The monthly membership is best for runners who run multiple races per year and are looking for long-term improvement from race to race. The one-time option is best for those who want training for one specific race.
Monthly
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Perfect for runners who run multiple races and want their schedule to factor in long-term planning and racing within each race. You can cancel anytime, no long-term commitment.
One-Time
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Total cost is 7.25 x the weeks of your schedule, billed one-time (i.e. a 12wk schedule is $87). The plan is best for runners who just want training for this one specific race.
Still Have Questions?
We’ll do our best to answer them here, but feel free to email support@runnersconnect.net if you have any questions not covered here.
No, no gym is needed. All strength, stretching and accessory work can be done at your home. We do have gym options for those that have one and want to use one, but it is not required.
The running schedule and strength workouts are delivered via our training app, which allows our coaches and you to track your progress and import/export to your favorite tracking devices. You can watch a video below about how this works.
Our focus groups and bootcamps are an add-on to our current RC membership because of the additional coaching, team and zoom calls and content.
If you want to join we will pause your existing RC membership so you are not charged during the time you join a bootcamp or focus group. The time will be added to your membership and last payment once the bootcamp is over and you want to restart.
We understand that our live zoom calls won’t always work for you. However, we will take questions beforehand and have recordings of each meetup so you can watch whenever you have time.
We use our team of expert coaches to help answer your questions, adjust your training, and keep you accountable.
You can ask questions in our private stream, post questions when you log your workouts, and interact with us during the live calls.
You can also request feedback on any run or workout, even if you don’t have questions. We have a short video below that explains a bit more about how this works.
We get it, training rarely ever goes to plan. If you miss a day or need an adjustment our coaches are here to help realign your plan.
Plus, your schedule will constantly adapt your training to your progress. If we notice that you’re having an easy time with all of the workouts we prescribe, we’ll speed things up to ensure you’re challenged appropriately. If you’re struggling or you have an injury pop up – we’ll back off and get your training on the right track.