I can run 8 miles every Saturday at marathon pace.
Is this enough during marathon training week?
I can run 8 miles every Saturday at marathon pace.
Is this enough during marathon training week?
You're gonna need to run more than 8 miles a week if you want to complete a marathon. Even Tom hobby jogger wearing kayanos puts in more work.
6-10 for most weeks with the exception of the bigger workouts sprinkled into a training block.
You can and should do at least double/triple that at steady pace or just slower than marathon pace. There should be very little slow jogging unless you are also doing shorter faster workouts that actually require recovery. Most people do too much work at marathon pace and then log slow recovery runs in between. This isn't a balanced approach and leads to underwhelming performance on race day.
This shouldn't be a tough week for a 2:35 person:
M 10mi @ 6:30
T 13mi w/ 5mi @5:30 LT
W 8mi @ 7:00
R 10mi @ 6:35
F 8mi @ 6:45
S 20mi w/ 10mi @ 6:00 MP
S 10mi @ 7:00
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Kjyfdh wrote:
This shouldn't be a tough week for a 2:35 person:
M 10mi @ 6:30
T 13mi w/ 5mi @5:30 LT
W 8mi @ 7:00
R 10mi @ 6:35
F 8mi @ 6:45
S 20mi w/ 10mi @ 6:00 MP
S 10mi @ 7:00
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A 2:35 marathon is close to 5:55/mile. HM pace will be around 5:40/mile. Your training plan suggests running a HM at 10 seconds/mile FASTER THAN HM PACE is physically possible, let alone a good idea, let alone not tough. Sure, just throw a 20 miler at MP + 5 seconds in on top of that.
colder and wiser wrote:
Kjyfdh wrote:
This shouldn't be a tough week for a 2:35 person:
M 10mi @ 6:30
T 13mi w/ 5mi @5:30 LT
W 8mi @ 7:00
R 10mi @ 6:35
F 8mi @ 6:45
S 20mi w/ 10mi @ 6:00 MP
S 10mi @ 7:00
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A 2:35 marathon is close to 5:55/mile. HM pace will be around 5:40/mile. Your training plan suggests running a HM at 10 seconds/mile FASTER THAN HM PACE is physically possible, let alone a good idea, let alone not tough. Sure, just throw a 20 miler at MP + 5 seconds in on top of that.
Read again... It's 13 miles with 5 of those miles at 5:30, not all 13
Hobby_Jogger_999 wrote:
colder and wiser wrote:
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A 2:35 marathon is close to 5:55/mile. HM pace will be around 5:40/mile. Your training plan suggests running a HM at 10 seconds/mile FASTER THAN HM PACE is physically possible, let alone a good idea, let alone not tough. Sure, just throw a 20 miler at MP + 5 seconds in on top of that.
Read again... It's 13 miles with 5 of those miles at 5:30, not all 13
And only half of the 20 that fast too.
Colder, I like your approach and think you could possibly put a better, more specific schedule up, but this one isn't as bad as you might have though at first glance.
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