So I’m a 4:10 miler whose been hurt quite often, working my mileage up. I have a 16 mile Pr of 91 minutes in peak shape. Right now I’m at 30 mpw at about 6:30 pace per mile, about 5 miles per day, Do you think I can qualify for Boston if I’m trained right? Any training recommendations?
How old are you? How long have you been running? and when was your "peak shape"?
Yes, you absolutely can qualify for Boston with that background if you stay healthy. If you stay healthy there's virtually a 100% chance that you qualify on your first or second chance if you don't execute properly the first time.
Read and follow the advice in Advanced Marathoning.
Keep your easy days EASY.
Don't go out too hard in the marathon, especially for the first mile.
Course shop. Don't choose an unreasonably difficult course for your first marathon. Choose the date wisely. Don't take chances with the weather. Websites like Findmymarathon provide all of the course info you need to choose the right first marathon.
bigballer1006 wrote:
So I’m a 4:10 miler whose been hurt quite often, working my mileage up. I have a 16 mile Pr of 91 minutes in peak shape. Right now I’m at 30 mpw at about 6:30 pace per mile, about 5 miles per day, Do you think I can qualify for Boston if I’m trained right? Any training recommendations?
Can't tell if this is a joke or not but, yes, a 4:10 miler should have no problem qualifying for Boston. You've done 16 miles @ 5:40ish pace & can definitely go faster than that for that distance. You should probably be targeting something like sub-2:30 but the injury/mileage concerns are real. Gotta get up to at least 60-70 range. Maybe the injury stuff is due to training for the shorter stuff & you can stay healthy doing real marathon training -- easy mileage + 1 threshold session/week + 1 good long run/week. Keep it simple. Stay healthy. Should qualify easily.
& don't worry about your average pace each week. More important to get in more miles. Plenty of pros probably average close to 7:00 pace who are running sub-2:20.