Why not just run a 50k at that pace and save yourself the time?
Mecca Marathon! The only right way to train for a marathon.
This is some awesome stuff. I'm wondering what other type of training you're doing besides the warm up and cool down for the mile each day, if any? Anyways, it's still awesome.
Last couple of weeks were 130 miles and 110 miles so the mileage has been high. Really just using the mile as bet, and I guess a long strider each day.
This might get tough to do once you get injured.
Joe Mac wrote:
Last couple of weeks were 130 miles and 110 miles so the mileage has been high. Really just using the mile as bet, and I guess a long strider each day.
Good stuff. Keep it up!
PRS?
Mile: 4.17
5k: 14.56
Half: 70.33
I have been running again since September, when I started the blog. Before that I took well over a year off. Since September I have just been running mileage, a lot of it and this is really a bet that was concocted over pints of Guinness at the local pub.
I sort of suppose it is a quick way to get some leg speed back again and it is a bit challenging. I am still overweight and out of shape, but giving it a go nonetheless. The actual bet is a year, but I am starting with a month and we will see where it goes from there.
Interesting idea, will be checking in for progress.
garbage bags wrote:
This might get tough to do once you get injured.
I think he'll be fine... a five minute mile really isn't that fast...
FullxCollapse wrote:
garbage bags wrote:This might get tough to do once you get injured.
I think he'll be fine... a five minute mile really isn't that fast...
I agree, most people would have no problem doing a mile 43 seconds slower than their PR everyday. I'll definitely be watching this, especially if it turns into a full year.
I'm thinking that you must have been the college guy who ran for cptc a few times several years ago, running 1:10 at brooklyn. am i right? good luck!
A sub 5 mile is not easy.
One: I am out of shape.
Two: Illness could pop up.
Three: hills (the mile is done at the end of my regular training run on the road and I am running over 100 miles per week). I am trying to keep it flat but the first two miles have been rolling.
Four: weather, today's 4.55 was probably the effort of a 4.35 considering it was pouring rain and was windy and hell. Just wait till it starts snowing!
I would agree if I were doing this on a treadmill, that would be easy, and I think I could do for a year, but I'm not and some of the miles will be pretty tough.
No way
I was under the impression that it was on a track.(with warm up and cool down ha). Sub 5 at the end of a training run is definately hard.
Yea, today's cool down was walking in my driveway for a minute to my house. And the warm up was 80 minutes.
I would like to know about the specific rules. So say you run 5:00.01 or something. If you want to try again and go sub-5 would that still count? I would think that it would.
I am not looking forward to that day. If I don't break five, I will jog, do some strides, and go again. Doesn't matter, as long as every calendar day I have a sub 5 minute mile in the books. Cause lets face it, this week I will have 100 sub seven minute miles.
I would however, like to keep it to one attempt per day. For my sake that is.
This sounds impressive and very fun.