So doing this much marathon pace work just 3 weeks out seems fairly aggressive to me. For those who have used Daniels' marathon Plan A, or the updated Q2 equivalent, what has your experience been?
I've run 2:55 off of Pfitz 18/70 in the past, and the last 3 weeks of that plan are the taper. Daniels 15 at MP with 21 days left to the race seems like it would leave you tired. Thank you.
I'm doing it next Saturday, but cutting it to 13.1 and doing it in the context of a half marathon. It's always extraordinarily taxing for me, but I always feel like it's important. If it makes you feel any better, it always seems closer to half marathon race effort than it does goal marathon pace. Then the taper and the race day adrenaline take hold.
Three weeks is more than long enough to recover from 15@MP. That's almost a month. You'll be fine.
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Three weeks is more than long enough to recover from 15@MP. That's almost a month. You'll be fine.
I agree it's only 15 miles you baby and you should certainly be able to fully recover in 5 days or less. It serves two purposes: 1). Giving you an idea what that pace really feels like and 2) will give you the confidence you can do it or a wake up call that your marathon pace is too ambitious. If you're paranoid because of the length of the long run then cut it to what Smoove is doing and just run the 13.1 exclusively at marathon pace.
Smoove- seems like that's what desi did last weekend in NYC
That's it. It do 20 miles @ 105% to make MP feel easy.