I know how peer review works , I ' ve gone through it multiple times . The issue would be if that ' s not what ' s going on in this field . <| sep |> It looks like a very crazy plan to me . What is the distance and pace of the longest run you have done lately ? And the more important question why do you want to do this ? A marathon is quite a serious race . You might be able to finish the marathon with your approach , but unless you have somehow a strong base , you will suffer a lot , probably walk , crawl and spit your heart out . You will suffer a lot and probably get injured . And I ' m not talking about that sweet and beautiful painsuffering of good training and strong performance , I ' m talking about pain for an objectively mediocre time that will be lightyears away from your current potential with a serious training plan . So , what ' s your motivationgoal ? I think you would most likely enjoy training and racing a shorter distance much more . A 5 km , 10 km race is much more compatible with playing football and two running days , beeing far away from beeing enough , will make you progress more . And there is nothing wrong with racing shorter distances , a fast 5000 m is as hard to achieve as a fast marathon , just different .