How can i be ready for a Marathon in one month?

I just started running this month and the LA Marathon is at the end of next month, i ran it a few years ago but i trained for months so i was ready for it but this time i started training a little late, any tips on how i can train for this marathon.|||If you've taken extensive time off -- assumably years -- and have just a month to go, you almost certainly shouldn't be looking at doing it.





Without at least adequate recent base mileage, your body won't be ready for the impact and your cardiovascular system won't be prepared for things either.





Though you might be able to get ready a bit faster than someone who had never done related training before, with extensive time off you're looking to be one of those people who don't have their brain and body tell them not to proceed like they should, resulting in injury.





You're not very different from an utter beginner if you haven't trained in a long period of time, and no one should be going from zero to marathon in but a couple months or less.





If you have kept up at least minimal base mileage you might be looking at run-walking, but it sounds like you flat-out waited too long, and there's not a shortcut to getting ready in a month, as you assumably found via your months of training once upon a time.





I'd change your plans and train for a fall marathon at the soonest.|||It depends on how much of a base you have. Did you just start running again, and how much time did you take off? It really comes down to how much base you already have, how you adapt to training, and what your goals are. If you have experience, as you state you do, and you have some base running, perhaps 15-20 miles a week, you may be able to do it- maybe. The important thing to understand is that you will simply be trying to finish, and will probably have to walk a bit.





Also, you have to take it easy with your training before the race. Lots of rest, Lots of LSD- long slow distance. You're going to have to try and get up to ~18 miles without injurying yourself, which will mean you're going to have to do long runs with lots of race between- 2 or 3 days.





Also activities like run/walk will help, going out for a several hours, splitting the time between running and walking will help build your aerobic base.





All in all, regardless of training, its going to take guts and pain tolerance to pull of the marathon with only a month of specific training.





My final statement: don't do it. It's going to be too much, and you'll probably just end up injurying yourself.