I live at 6500 but work close to 7k. I'm wanting to crack 3 at sea level. What is the translation for my training paces to sea level? Let's say I do my tempos at 6:40-6:45. What does that equate down to while literally at 0 ft altitude?
I live at 6500 but work close to 7k. I'm wanting to crack 3 at sea level. What is the translation for my training paces to sea level? Let's say I do my tempos at 6:40-6:45. What does that equate down to while literally at 0 ft altitude?
I am in a similar situation but at 5500’ which I think is worth 10 seconds a mile or so in a marathon.
To answer your question more directly I have been able to run my 5500’ tempo pace for an entire marathon at sea level.
You can adjust for altitude, temperature, etc.
Maybe do MP pace stuff at 7:10ish pace and fuel properly and you should be good to go and hold 6:50s at SL
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I live at 6500 but work close to 7k. I'm wanting to crack 3 at sea level. What is the translation for my training paces to sea level? Let's say I do my tempos at 6:40-6:45. What does that equate down to while literally at 0 ft altitude?
You are screwed in my opinion.
Living in high altitude makes you slower not faster. You don't have the leg turnover you need.
(I lived in 6600 for 9 years btw)
Everyone thinks they will fly in the marathon going from altitude to sea level, but I am skeptical.
The formulas say you can expect anywhere from a 3 to 7% improvement, but I have also found that weather at SL can be a confounding factor. Went from over 6000 feet to Dallas (a few feet) in December. The humidity got me (tornado warnings were in effect the day before the marathon). Oh and 7% would be really amazing!
Had a group run the Honolulu marathon (about as sea level as one can get) from Colorado and Wyoming. December--again the cold to heat did them in (a few did an acclimitifffzation protocol but still suffered).
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