I need to pick a goal. I’m 40 with four kids ages 3-9 and want to pick a racing goal for 2018. I’ve run two marathons with a PR last year of 2:50. Haven’t run a 1500/mile in almost 20 years (PR mile 4:13). I enjoy the marathon training. I’m not sure how my body will hold up to speed training, but think it could be fun.
Any advice for a lost old guy?
Train for 5k/10k, dont need the same volume as the marathon, plenty of road races to run, and you could get enough speed to jump in a mile race sometime if you are really wanting to see what you could do. Specifically mile training might be a little too rigorous with speed. Will probably get just as fast with ability to have more range with 5k/10k training.
Normally I would say the mile as the training is less time consuming for someone in your stage of life (I am right there with you), but I am going to say marathon.
Based on the fact that you've already done 2 in the last year, it seems you have figured out how to carve out the time for training, and the simple fact of the matter is that you have a pretty good mile PR and no matter how well you run "for a 40 year old", you will probably be dissatisfied with the time since you will inevitably compare it to your open time.
With the marathon, you can still set a new PR and you have said that you enjoy the training itself, so it is kind of a win-win.
Combine that with avoiding the stress that doing hard 200s and 400s puts on your body, and I think the marathon is the easy answer for you.
I am biased because I basically moved to the marathon for all of the reasons discussed above.
I'm an older guy.
Had a comeback at 40 and ran the mile--with base work and some racing in the months before. Then spent 9 months or so at 5K-10K, followed by another summer with the mile as focus. Then I did a marathon, before dropping down to 5K - 10K the speed work and intensity of the mile helps with you running economy and that carries over to the longer distances.
5k-10k then you can go up to the half marathon or down to the mile.
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