{"id":33,"date":"2026-08-17T12:22:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/2026\/08\/17\/your-first-half-marathon-a-12-week-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:22:04","slug":"your-first-half-marathon-a-12-week-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/2026\/08\/17\/your-first-half-marathon-a-12-week-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Your first half marathon: a 12-week plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you can run 5 km comfortably, you can finish a half marathon in twelve weeks. Three runs a week is enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The three runs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One easy run, one run with a few faster efforts and one long run that grows by about a kilometre a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rest is training too<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take at least two full rest days a week. Every fourth week, drop the long run back to let your body catch up.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can run 5 km comfortably, you can finish a half marathon in twelve weeks. Three runs a week is enough. The three&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-marathon-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}