2009 Portland Marathon Clinic

The Portland Marathon Clinic offers programs leading to the successful completion of the Portland Marathon. Established in 1984 the Clinic has helped thousands of runners and walkers to sucessfully complete their first marathon. 100's of others have achieved their personal bests. It provides proven, safe and supported programs. It is the sanctioned official training program for the Portland Marathon.

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REGULAR Clinic - Seminars start April 8, FREE runs start April 4

Our REGULAR Clinic is intended for those with little or no previous marathon experience. We have 5 levels of training programs for those running as little as 10 miles/week to those running as much as 50 miles/week. All training is individualized based on the runners experience and ability.

The clinic consists of 5 evening seminar sessions and FREE group training runs with groups for all paces. Our runs are open to anyone.

Seminar Package Participants receive:

• 5 Wednesday evening 2 1/2 hour seminars
• a 183 page book
• handouts
• a personalized online training schedule and log
• a microfiber Portland Marathon Training Clinic shirt

Online Training Schedule/Log

The seminar package is $100, individual seminars are $30.

• Secure Online Clinic Registration

Our coaches are certified by the Road Runners Club of America.

Seminar topics include the following:

• BASICS OF TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE (Apr 8)
• TRAINING TECHNIQUES (May 6)
• MAXIMIZING PERFORMANCE (Jun 3)
• FINAL PREPARATION (Jul 8)
• RACE WEEK GUIDE (Sep 16)

Seminars are Wednesday 7:00 - 9:30PM, Kaiser Permanente Town Hall, 3704 N. Interstate Avenue, Portland. Parking in Kaiser Garage.

4 Hour pace group, (one of 12 groups), heads out on the years first clinic training run.

FREE Runs

For the Marathon trainee, we provide FREE group training runs every Saturday beginning in April. You do NOT have to be a seminar participant to do our runs, everyone is welcome. Aid is provided on the course for runs longer than 10 miles. Bring along your dry clothes, snack and favorite replacement drink for afterwards.

FREE weekend long run schedule. All runs start at 8AM.

Run group leaders meet before training run

All runs start promptly at 8:00AM. Up to 12 pace groups are provided.
For advanced notification and directions to the runs join our email list.

LOCATIONS:

• Brunch Run* - Park at Willamette Park off SW Macadam. Ride bus to start. Run back to park. Post run brunch. * $10 ticket MUST be purchased in August at runs or Sponsoring Stores. Bus leaves at 7:30AM.
• Duniway Park Track - SW Barbur Blvd just south of downtown Portland.
• George Rogers Park - Off S. State Street, Lake Oswego
• Marathon Course - Marathon Start, SW 4th and Main
• Springwater Corridor - Main City Park, off Powell Blvd in Gresham.
• Wildwood Trail - Adjacent to NW 53rd Drive. From NW Cornell turn onto 53rd Drive and go 1/2 mi to meeting area at top of Birch Trail.
• Vancouver Lake Park - 7 miles west of Vancouver. Take the 4th Plain exit from I5 and follow west to park.

For details on our free training runs Click Here.

ADVANCED Marathon Clinic Starts June 18th

Achieve a faster, better marathon by participating in the Advanced Marathon Training Program. This 16 week program is for experienced marathoners running either the Portland Marathon or other October, November marathons. The coaches are RRCA certified running coaches with over 25 years of experience coaching marathoners. They will guide the runners to set and achieve their marathon goals while training in a fun and social group environment.

The ultimate goal is to get each runner to the marathon start line prepared, rested, and healthy to run a better, faster marathon. Runners will be given a complete individualized online schedule and log with daily runs, distance and paces. The program will focus on the two major components of marathon training, the long run and marathon specific speedwork. Participants use the Portland Marathon Training Clinic free Saturday runs as their long runs for the week, (see free run info on this page). Speedwork sessions will be done as a group Thursday evenings at 6 pm at the Duniway track. The plan is to build strength and endurance, gradually add some speed, then finish with marathon specific speedwork.

Prerequisites:

• Marathon Experience - need to have run at least one prior marathon
• Pace - all paces and goals welcome from under 3 hours to over 5 hours.
• Current training level - a minimum mileage base of 30 miles a week, recent long run of 13 -14 miles.

Features:

• Thursday Group Runs - meet Thursday evenings at 6 pm at Duniway park from June 18 through Oct 1. The runs start with an easy group warm up and end with an easy cool down. Workouts include plyometrics, fartlek or speedplay, hill runs, intervals and pace runs. Paces will be individual and range from 5K race pace to specific marathon pace runs in the final peaking phase.
• Saturday Group Runs - long runs will be Saturdays at 8 am from various locations with the Portland Marathon Training Clinic. These runs feature pace group run leaders and aid stations on marked courses. (see free run info on this page)
• Online Schedule and Log - individualized based on ability and current fitness level.
• Online Features after log in - virtual marathon clinic seminars, core strength workout, stretch and strengthen library, maps of training route, shoe log and training and injury FAQ's.

The cost of the program will be $60 and includes the online features plus the Thursday workout with the coaches. The registration is either online or in person. Refunds will not be available after June 16 and will require a $10 handling fee.

• Secure Online Clinic Registration

The coaches will need a working email address to be able to contact you with messages. Participants are encouraged to communicate directly with the coaches either in person at the Duniway workouts or via email

More Info:

Phone: (503)-692-5126
Email:
FREE run FAQ