Do you prefer to run a hilly marathon and not run a good time but place well. Or do you prefer flat ones to try to pr?
Do you prefer to run a hilly marathon and not run a good time but place well. Or do you prefer flat ones to try to pr?
Marathonnnn wrote:
Do you prefer to run a hilly marathon and not run a good time but place well. Or do you prefer flat ones to try to pr?
How about NO marathon?
Both
My ego liked the flat fast courses, but looking back I had more fun running hilly trail marathons.
I haven't run a marathon in 9 years. I doubt I can run more than 15 miles anymore. AGE! We all can't be Ed Whitlock.
Some elevation change is nice. I've run Chicago (flat) and philly (2 hills in the middle and some rolling terrain on the back end) and have always run better at Philly. Philly PR is 3 minutes faster than Chicago (ran them both in the same year). I find that the hills engage and activate more leg muscles. I've never run Boston or NYCM so not sure I'd feel the same if the hills were more towards the tail end of the race though
Hilly
always prefer very hilly, windy course with a lot of turning points. then i have always excuse if time is very slow :)
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