Time between Marathons?

Your age?

What kind of miles per week were you doing ?

How sore are you?

BRO just go for it - stop being a baby hobby yogger.

As already asked ... age? mpw? how sore?

That said, I ran three PRs in three months at age 23 ... 60 miles per week ... was sore for a few days after each effort.

My philosophy at the time: Why wait? I was fit and felt capable of going faster. (Progression for the three races was 2:47, 2:45, 2:40).

Age, mileage, training questions are valid but just roll into another. From a 65mpw average I ran three in 62 days including two in 13 days (2:47, 2:51, 2:49).

Vermont City is about 6 weeks after Boston and quite a few of the top runners also do Boston. I've herd them talk about it, and they say if they do well in Boston, they recover quickly enough to do another within a month.

That's the 2:30 crowd, however.

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Vermont City is about 6 weeks after Boston and quite a few of the top runners also do Boston. I've herd them talk about it, and they say if they do well in Boston, they recover quickly enough to do another within a month.

That's the 2:30 crowd, however.

I've seen some of the 2:30 crowd go slow all summer. Total burnout from Boston in the heat. There's that too.

4-5 weeks is adequate for a 65 mpw runner under say age 55. I always found that I ran better in the second race, though that may be because the first was Boston.

33/M - not unbelievably sore - ankle feels good - don't think a 10m light run would be out of the question tonight or tomorrow.

Was running in the mid 40s to mid 50s until mid September and had a injury setback (achillies soreness I couldn't run through) that really reduced my workout ability and weekly mileage goals

Ran 16 miler 2nd week of Sept. in 1:53:xx that was my last good workout.

Marathon over the weekend ran 3:33:xx - 1:42 through the half way point.

I recommend at least 21 hours off between marathons.

Find an early December marathon and register now before it sells out. Your 16-miler a month ago predicts a better marathon, as you know, and now you have solid 26-mile "long run" completed as well. And probably time for at least one more 16- to 18-mile run.

Allen1959 wrote:

Find an early December marathon and register now before it sells out. Your 16-miler a month ago predicts a better marathon, as you know, and now you have solid 26-mile "long run" completed as well. And probably time for at least one more 16- to 18-mile run.

Bumping this for others who just ran huge marathons and want to run another one soon (Cbus, Chicago, Boston recently), or for a Spring Boston.

I was going to do Indy but I am taking a week off to recover, then back at it. Signed up for the 2/6 Dublin Warm Up Columbus (26 loops at 1 mile each). This gives me time to build the base again and do some speedwork, as well as improve pacing--if anything, this will help showcase pacing due to it being a 1-mile loop course.

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I think 4 weeks is about the minimum I would recommend for back to back marathons. Basically if you caught a bad weather day, you want to maintain & should run faster in better conditions. You put yourself in a hole if you try to do too much in between races. With 4 weeks you have 1 week of a good mix of days off & a weekend run of 12-13 miles max. No workouts that week. The 12-13 should be taken easy. Then a mid-week tempo (threshold-MP) session is fine. Nothing too absurd. 6 x 1 mile at GMP. Something like that. Then do 30km or so 2 weeks out. Treat 2 weeks out to race day pretty much exactly how you did for your 1st marathon. 1 workout 9-11 days out. Medium long run 1 week out. Something light race week. Crush marathon attempt #2 in good conditions. Advice would be to make sure not to go out fast. You'll still have the first marathon in your legs. Even if you didn't run the time you wanted, the effort still took something out of you. Go out at pace & put yourself in position to negative split.

If you're looking at something 4+ weeks out, you have two options- something in the less than 6ish week range where you have time for 1 or 2 20 milers & maybe some harder sessions but still mostly maintaining OR looking at something in January-April range where you have time for a full build-up.

Allen1959 wrote:

As already asked ... age? mpw? how sore?

That said, I ran three PRs in three months at age 23 ... 60 miles per week ... was sore for a few days after each effort.

My philosophy at the time: Why wait? I was fit and felt capable of going faster. (Progression for the three races was 2:47, 2:45, 2:40).

This gives me hope that you can do another marathon 3-4 mos. after finishing one.

I went out too fast, screwed up Cbus (3:20, crappy PR but still a PR), and my prior one was 3:24. I put in 8 mos. of work and should have easily run 3:14 but ran a way-too-fast 1:33 and died in 1:46.

I'm doing a "revenge marathon" in February (26 1-mile loops) a few miles from my house (only $70 too) to try to get the pacing down right and break 3:15.

I may look at a private coach for this one, but am mainly looking at maintaining (probably 1 20 and a bunch of 16-18s). Luckily, I only took 1 week off running completely so my base didn't erode much. Am doing light base before getting into my next plan.