1) What was your finishing time?
2) What time were you aiming to run?
3) How many miles per week were you training in the 6 months prior?
Please provide any anecdotes. This is my goal for January 2012!
1) What was your finishing time?
2) What time were you aiming to run?
3) How many miles per week were you training in the 6 months prior?
Please provide any anecdotes. This is my goal for January 2012!
1)2:27
2)low 2:20's
3)about 60 miles per week
Colmer Knoll wrote:
1) What was your finishing time?
2:29 and change
Colmer Knoll wrote:
2) What time were you aiming to run?
Honestly, I had no idea.
Colmer Knoll wrote:
3) How many miles per week were you training in the 6 months prior?
I'd say close to 70 or 80 six months before, hit 90 and 100 for about 5 weeks about 2 months out and then dropped to 60 or 70 again for a couple weeks leading up to the race.
Colmer Knoll wrote:
Please provide any anecdotes. This is my goal for January 2012!
I won the race too, so that kind of helped me push the pace, having to race for the win. Try to pick a race where you are fighting for the W.
I never got too much faster despite training harder (2:27 PR), so maybe I am not the best person to advise you on training...
1. 2:22:26
2. mid 2:20's
3. 80-85 per week
Following college cross country season. Lots of hill reps and longer intervals provided a big base. I also felt like lots of running on grass made me stronger than running on the roads or track. Longest run was 15 miler, but done at tempo pace.
I got close. 2:31:16 for my debut aged 22 last year. Targeting 2:28:xx and was running ~80-85 for 3 weeks and then a lower 60 to recover (well aware I need a lot more to run fast).
Was without a doubt in the shape to run sub 2:30 - ran sub 70 and 31:38 in build up (before campaign PBs 32:15 and 73:xx) - and was flying in long tempo runs (e.g. 16 miles at 2:26 pace) - unfortunately something just went wrong on the day (not helped by neighbours having an outdoor party at 4 in the morning...) - and my legs went to jelly at 16 miles (way too early given a fairly relaxed pace) - aerobically I was easy as anything, mentally absolutely fine, hydrated comfortably - just something off - gritted out 6 minute miles to the finish. Very hard work.
Feel free to drop me an email. Can let you know what pitfalls etc. I fell into.
1) What was your finishing time?
2:27:50
2) What time were you aiming to run?
2:24
3) How many miles per week were you training in the 6 months prior?
70-90 mpw
1) Not quite sub 2:30, it was 2:31:08
2) Came in pretty open ended and anything between 2:30 and 2:35 would have been fine for a debut.
3) 3-6 months out, I was slacking and ran maybe 50 mpw; only the final 10 weeks did I pick it up, to avg of low 70s, with peak weeks in the low 80s.
Anecdotes: I had no business doing this. Running had been pretty mediocre until that spring and something just clicked over the final 3 or 4 weeks (sub 32 min 10K 2 weeks before marathon, a PR of almost a minute). Drank 3 beers the night before the marathon, which was a mistake and it took 10 miles to sweat it out of my system. Felt great till about 16 or 17, then had quad cramps and had to stop and stretch a few times--actually lying down--but closed very strong with 5:30s and 5:40s over the last couple of miles.
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1) 2:28:57
2) Aiming for around 2:35
3) ~70 miles a week
I had no idea what I was doing. Went out at 5:40 pace because that's what the lead pack of Kenyans ran for the first mile, and I was smart enough not to pass them. Ended up keeping that pace the whole way. Since then, I've run 8 more marathons in 9 years, and only run faster once.
1. 2:22:21
2. sub 2:22:00
3. 80-100 mpw....coming off xc season.
was on sub 2:20 pace through 20 miles. If you feel good at any point in the first 15 miles DON'T capitalize on it and try to put "time in the bank"....the last 10k is going to make or break your race!
2:23
2:19
100-120 for most of it. Lots of hills, HILLY Long runs from 20-24 usually @6 min pace. Got in 10k pr (30:26 road) shape before I started marathon specific workouts. 3x5k, 2x10k, 10xmile,hilly 1/2 marathon (1:09) at goal pace 3 weeks out, tempos...stuff like that. I had very short rest 1-2 min on everything. On pace through 20 but the hills at the end of the race killed me off.
Yeah sub 2:30 is my goal for a marathon at the end of April. I'd prefer 2:28, but 2:29:59 will make me happy.