Sub 2:50 Marathon

40 miles a week is a good start, continue with this until new year for your base and gradually add 5% per week until 70 miles. Every 3rd week take a recovery week as injuries are quiet common after a long lay off. Stretch, massage requlary and the usual good diet etc etc,on 2nd thoughts disregard everything i suggested as good marathon book like advanced marathoning from Pitzinger will tell you everything you need to know. Keep posting your progress and give more specifics like age, weight, current fitness, paces and previous Pbs or current.

If you can afford an online coach I would suggest you contact the very best we have here at LRC.

An expert at low mileage training and coach sprinters to marathoners with the same perfection. He coached me in very short time to new PB:s.He goes by the name JS.

JS = Jävlar Skitstövels

Running free wrote:

If you can afford an online coach I would suggest you contact the very best we have here at LRC.

An expert at low mileage training and coach sprinters to marathoners with the same perfection. He coached me in very short time to new PB:s.He goes by the name JS.

How much progression did you make and how short is very short?

What times did you run?

Does it matter if you are over 40?

Running free wrote:

Brett wrote:

How much progression did you make and how short is very short?

What times did you run?

Does it matter if you are over 40?

At age 43 my best master 5 k was 16.30 . After only two months with JS I ran 15.37 .

Really low mileage and only five sessions per week.

Almost 1 minute in two months?

How much did you improve on a half marathon because i think that is way to much progression

Especially on a 5k it's only by seconds is my honest opinion

Running free wrote:

Brett wrote:

How much progression did you make and how short is very short?

What times did you run?

Does it matter if you are over 40?

At age 43 my best master 5 k was 16.30 . After only two months with JS I ran 15.37 .

Really low mileage and only five sessions per week.

Got it, 5 times a week.

I thought 3 times /at most\ a couple of miles would do the trick .

Brett wrote:

Running free wrote:

At age 43 my best master 5 k was 16.30 . After only two months with JS I ran 15.37 .

Really low mileage and only five sessions per week.

Almost 1 minute in two months?

How much did you improve on a half marathon because i think that is way to much progression

Especially on a 5k it's only by seconds is my honest opinion

I ran a PB half in 1.11( before 1.15) on the same kind of training.My longest training run was 13 miles at easy pace.Could probably run a marathon 2.30-2.35 I guess if trained for it.

And Rupp is a 2:05 guy and I could’ve run 2:19 if I trained for it.

Whatever.

Brett wrote:

Running free wrote:

At age 43 my best master 5 k was 16.30 . After only two months with JS I ran 15.37 .

Really low mileage and only five sessions per week.

Got it, 5 times a week.

I thought 3 times /at most\ a couple of miles would do the trick .

Running free is JS.

JS is a fraud.

The only person we know he has coached recently is Slava who is now injured due to the ridiculous 'perfection' coaching of JS.

pupil3142 wrote:

Brett wrote:

Got it, 5 times a week.

I thought 3 times /at most\ a couple of miles would do the trick .

Running free is JS.

JS is a fraud.

The only person we know he has coached recently is Slava who is now injured due to the ridiculous 'perfection' coaching of JS.

It looked to good to be true, thanks

Have you read “Advanced Marathoning“? It may be a bit dated but it goes through a simple explanation of training and racing the marathon as well as nutrition and cross training. It not only tells you how, but why you need to do certain things to run your best time.

I came really close to 2:50 following the 18/55 plan, and I missed a lot of workouts. If I had followed it 100%, I’m almost positive I would have broken 2:50.

Running free wrote:

If you can afford an online coach I would suggest you contact the very best we have here at LRC.

An expert at low mileage training and coach sprinters to marathoners with the same perfection. He coached me in very short time to new PB:s.He goes by the name JS.

who here thinks Irish people write like this?

who here knows JS writes like this?

This attempt by JS to sound Oirish is laughable. Begorah, to be sure, to be sure. Is that a unicorn? pass the potatoes.

Running free wrote:

It 's true. I'm not JS. My name is Vincent and I'm an Irish master runner. JS really coached me to the times I told.Nowadays I'm self-trained but still follows his basic principles.

Submit Strava link for proof please!

Or any kind of link for that matter, like race results to verify your claim 1:15 to 1:11

Check out books with running plans from Pete Pfitzinger or Jack Daniels, they have good principles that will take you a long way.

Running free wrote:

It 's true. I'm not JS. My name is Vincent and I'm an Irish master runner. JS really coached me to the times I told.Nowadays I'm self-trained but still follows his basic principles.

No Irish person writes like that.

This is why se all say the same, Jan, you are a liar.

Jekkes wrote:

Running free wrote:

It 's true. I'm not JS. My name is Vincent and I'm an Irish master runner. JS really coached me to the times I told.Nowadays I'm self-trained but still follows his basic principles.

Submit Strava link for proof please!

Or any kind of link for that matter, like race results to verify your claim 1:15 to 1:11

Vincent, where art thou?