Lowest Milage to Run a Marathon?

My brother used to run one marathon a year with no training and would finish around 3:30.

Ray Rodriguez ran a 2:23 Boston 1980 on a high mileage week of 47. Ran marathons after on a lot less.

Whats the lowest mileage that anyone here has run and finished a marathon?

Oh, about 15 or 16.

1. I have a friend who would run one marathon a year only doing 20-30 miles a week. . so more prepared then you. .He ran a 2:46 or something like that on the mileage

2. You will run 3:32

3. Yes, there are good medical services

4. You will NOT beat any letsrun posters! They all do 100+ mile weeks and are sub 2:30 guys. .

lets us know how things go!!

26.2 miles is the lowest you can run to run a marathon

I did my first one on an average of 25 miles per week with a longest run of 18 miles. I did get up to 38 miles that week, but my average over several months leading up to it was 25.

I ran 4:38:00 Ha ha, I know.

Ran a 3:08 using this:

http://www.furman.edu/first/2006%20marathon%20program.pdf

Just did (3) workouts a week and supplemented that with cross-training at the gym. Pretty pleased with my time considering the low amount of mileage I put in. Don't think I cracked 40 miles a week throughout the build-up.

my buddy and i attempted to do a marathon a few weeks back on zero training. we're both reasonably fit and active guys, former college athletes (not xc or track, however), but had no base to speak of. i guess in retrospect, the one thing i'll say is the marathon as a distance deserves some respect. he finished, i didn't. we both bonked at about mile 21, and bonked hard- we were at about 2:55 pace at that point, and he basically walked it in to finish at ~3:30. i got myself a bit too dehydrated and mailed it in at mile 24. your PRs say you're probably capable of well under 2:40... your training says you'll probably finish in 3:10-3:30. you can definitely do it, but i wouldn't expect big results.

capable of well under 240 with a 1603 pr and 34+ 10k? yeah right.

I don't consider myself athlete by any means and I work two jobs. I ran a marathon on a dare from a guy at work and ran a 2:25:12. I did some light jogging a week before the race in a pair of hand me down Puma H-Streets. Like I said, I'm nothing special so if you can get the miles up a little I see no reason why you can't get under 2:05:00 and if you can't do that just leave the race to the joggers.

Actually according to Daniels and Mcmillan a 16:03 and 34+ 10k are indicative of a sub 2:40 marathon.

Mcmillan says a 2:36.

dreaming wrote:

capable of well under 240 with a 1603 pr and 34+ 10k? yeah right.

McMillan's says 16:03 5k PR is equivalent to a 2:36. but hey, letsrun always knows better, eh?

I'm not concerned about what I can run off of my lifetime PR's. I know I could easily go under 2:35 if I was in my best shape. I'm more interested in what every one thinks I can do after being lazy all summer.

At first I thought I could hit 2:50 but now I think 3:00 would be a miracle. I'm going to go as long as I can at a relaxed effort and hope that the bonk is not too extreme.

One idea I've considered is making it into an interval workout after 10 miles. I could run the first 10 miles in 67-68 minutes and then walk for 1 minute and then run a 6:30 mile and alternate this the rest of the way. So it would be (10 @ 68) + (15 x 6:30) + (1 x 16:00) + (.2 x 6:30) = approx 3:03:30.

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