The Wizard JS wrote:
123 5 wrote:
4:17/km / 6:53/mi is an easy run coming from a foot injury?
If it had been a hobby-jogger I`m with you it`s too fast , but Slava doesn`t seem to be an ordinary
runner.........and only 147 bpm , that`s okey. Let me see now......the Russian national marathon record is 2:09:07 and will of course be extremely difficult to beat in some years......but impossible ? No, I don`t think so......but sub 2:15 is a good chance in some years if he can stay healthy. My native country Sweden has a guy running 2:10 and he isn`t very talented.
I have grown to like Canefis and I hope he is successful in making progress but these goals still crack me up.
There is literally nothing in any of this training that suggests anything within 30 minutes of these times being quoted. It is almost insulting to actual 2:15/2:20, hell even 2:30 marathoners.
Some dude running 65 miles a week with a bunch of 7 flat miles and an occasional 400 workout at "LT" pace is so far away from the training you would expect out of a 2:20 marathoner I don't even know how to verbalize how deep the disconnect is. Honestly, the training that Canefis is doing is no different than the dozens of 40+ year old hobby joggers on my Strava feed turning in 2:50 marathons. I include myself in this category. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with that. That said, running rewards realism rather than delusions.
A 10k TT should really help calibrate expectations. Based on all the talk I would say anything slower than 31 minutes has to be viewed as a bit of a holy $hit moment regarding the potential to run close to 2:20 in a debut marathon. My guess, sub 34 is a good, ambitious target and probably unattainable by the end of the year.