Juicy, juicy wrote:
"It's on Andy" Maguire is a great hate watch. Nothing against the lad but he his last 2 weeks of running have been 130k and 126k, basically 12 hours a week, including a Youtuber special 3 x 10k at "marathon pace". His "goal pace" is 4:30 per km so he was running 3 x 45 mins at MP 3 weeks out. Totalled about 36k, nearly 3 hours for the day.
He is the classic example "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing". He's seen bits of this block from one youtuber and some writings about an elite and mixed and matched them into an appalling training plan which will probably leave him fatigued on race day.
He actually failed to hit MP on any of his 10k reps yet does the classic r/firstmarathon quote "Today was a terrible day but tapered and carbed up, with race day adrenaline I'll be fine"
Utter clueless.
Agree on this. It's car crash viewing. How can anyone running that mileage struggle to break 20 mins at parkrun, or hit 4:30 pace on long runs?