How can I fit in half Marathon training ?

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About to tick off fitness goal at the weekend (tough mudder full) so I want to aim for my next one. A half marathon. It's been 10 years since I've run one and there is a nice flat one in 6 weeks.
Currently I do this and don't want to drop the F45 sessions.
Boot camp - Monday
F45(hiit) weights focused - Tuesday
F45 (HIIT) cardio - Wednesday
F45 (HIIT) weights - Thursday
F45 (HIIT) cardio - Friday
Parkrun - Saturday
Rest - Sunday
I sometime run longer on parkrun day. Can run around 14km at the min. Would I be silly to run on the weights days also ? Or leave me open to injury ? Trying to get some KM's under my feet but can't follow a traditional training plan (like bupa) Which got me across the line before ? As I am addicted committed to F45? Any ideas ?

parkrun sandwich? Use that as your long run? So run there, do pr, run home?

You should really be running 3 times a week though realistically

I only do two hiit a week and one long run at the weekend and easily got up to 20k for the run and I’m not a natural runner so you should be fine just to continue to extend the park run.

Ok - that should work, did a double park run a couple of weeks ago. Disheartening, but it worked to get the k's in !

Doing a half marathon in 6 weeks, from a base of 1 run a week just isn’t sensible. You’ve probably got the aerobic fitness and strength through everything else you do, however, your legs will not be used to the repetitive pounding on tarmac that’s involved in a half marathon and TBH you’re very likely to end up injured. I know people who’ve done half marathon with v little training (but alrrady fit), who completed the run but were subsequently unable to run again because of injury sustained by running with insufficient training.

The advice is not to increase your running by more than 10% each week, and for a half marathon you really need to be already running 3 times a week and been doing this consistently for some time.

Maybe next year?

Just for the six weeks, I think you need to swop your cardio sessions to running sessions. You could try to add running, but I think you might then risk overtraining injuries.

What you need for a Half is (probably) not more fitness as you do a lot already, but running stamina (and progressive strengthening of legs to avoid running injury). And you get that by running.

You can train for a Half on 3 runs a week - you can google for plans, loads out there, and pick one you like the look of.

The obvious thing to add is making your Parkrun a sandwich. If you have one about 3 miles away that would be spot on.

I'm working on upping my park run, have signed up for an interval training session with my PT and now just need to find one more. Maybe a long run before work on a Friday !

Agree with others. Your fitness will be fine but you really need to increase your runs to condition your legs and avoid run-specific injury.
You should ideally be running 3 x week: two of these can be fairly short (3-4 miles) and then a long run of increasing distance (starting around 6-7 miles and add 1-2 mile / week, but then taper back to 5 or 6 miles a week before the race).

Like others I'd be worried about injury only running once a week really.

6 weeks to jump in sounds quite risky to me.

If you're going to do it then I'd be getting a long run in 10km+ each week plus some shorter runs.

Ideally you only want to increase distance by 10%ish a week to build up so that might affect how viable it is.
Good luck.

The six weeks must have passed by now

I'm just being nosey, but was wondering if you did it, and how you got on