I started running a year ago and worked my way up to the marathon distance very quickly so I know I'm talented. I took it pretty easy and still broke 4 hours on my very first marathon. I want to qualify for the olympic trials and am willing to put all my other obligations job, wife, kids on the side to do it, but I don't know how to train properly for a marathon. Any advice?
4 hours.....for a marathon....and you..want to...decrease...your time....by.....1 hour...and 40...minutes...in...a....year?
Go and run a 5:25 mile and report back. Than go and do that fo 26.2 miles.
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I want to be real good wrote:
I started running a year ago and worked my way up to the marathon distance very quickly so I know I'm talented. I took it pretty easy and still broke 4 hours on my very first marathon. I want to qualify for the olympic trials and am willing to put all my other obligations job, wife, kids on the side to do it, but I don't know how to train properly for a marathon. Any advice?
I want to be real good wrote:
I started running a year ago and worked my way up to the marathon distance very quickly so I know I'm talented. I took it pretty easy and still broke 4 hours on my very first marathon. I want to qualify for the olympic trials and am willing to put all my other obligations job, wife, kids on the side to do it, but I don't know how to train properly for a marathon. Any advice?
1) The drops in time become increasingly difficult, sure you might drop 15-20 minutes very easily to 3:35, but you will find the drop to 3:00 quiet a bit more difficult and the drop from 3:00-2:40 will take years of training (not months) and the drop from 2:40 to 2:20 will take another few years at best (we are talking no injuries and solid perfect training). I suppose if everything went perfect you could POSSIBLY (but I'd give you a 1 in million shot at it) be close to 220 by the qualifiers for the 2016 Olympics but I would but all my current savings and all my future earnings against you making it to 2012, it flat out won't happen.
2) You sound like a selfish ass (added to the ignorance from point 1), willing to drop your obligations to your wife and kids. Whats funny is you have no shot of making it in 2012 and pretty much no shot of making it ever, yet you would through sometihng like that away? Pathetic. Actually I take that one in a million shot back, anyone who would willing give up such obligations and commitments like you propose here will never have the discipline or will power it takes to run 220.
3) You are either an ignorant, selfish, egotistical ass who really needs to take a good hard look in the mirror and figure out what is important in life and what kind of man you want to be (at this point deciding to be a man at all might be a good place to start since you are "dropping your obligations")...or...you are trolling and I have just been had....lets hope its the later.
If you're gonna shoot for sub 2:20, its kinda stupid not to just shoot for sub 2:19 to make the trials. Sounds like you need 10-15 years of base training, get some miles in your legs. 4 hour marathon is what fat celebrities do.
Why all the bashing? LRC is SOOOO negative.
This guy is only asking for help.
To the OP:
Start running as many miles as you can while remaining uninjured. Getting up to 100-120 miles is ideal. Do this for about 6 months, then add some speedwork.
I can't believe you guys are falling for this obvious troll. Jesus H guys!
You, sir, need to learn to respect the marathon.
From a gender standpoint, 2:20 is a "real good" time for a female. It is only a "good" time for a male. Good enough to win a few small regional marathons. Not good enough to garner any serious sponsorship money or a trials berth.
Love your wife and raise your kids.
Do not let these naysayers get you down.
I can get you to sub 2:20 in 3 years.
The first 2 years will be laying the foundation.
There will be lots of lsd that is long slow distance.
All of your miles will be at 8 to 10 minutes per mile.
The third year is where it all pays off.
Now if you really want this once in a life time experience you have to make some real sacrifices.
My fee is 92,000 dollars.
I will need a 20,000 dollar initial payment before we begin.Then it will cost you 2,000 per month for the next 24 month.For the final year I will need the last 24,000 up front.
Bushman? I have a question for you. If 2:20 is 'good' for a male and 'real good' for a female and your the expert..what is YOUR best time for the marathon? I have to know.....all of letsrun is waiting to know
People are so delusional. 2:20 as a male will place you in the top 20 at Chicago, one of the largest marathons in the world most years as well as New York.
Look at the US marathon list any year, a 2:20 will land you in the top 40 usually.
For a female, it is world class.
what1 wrote:
Bushman? I have a question for you. If 2:20 is 'good' for a male and 'real good' for a female and your the expert..what is YOUR best time for the marathon? I have to know.....all of letsrun is waiting to know
There are more sub 2:19 marathoners, 4 minute milers, 13:15 5k runners and 28 min 10k runners on Letsrun than there are at the Olympic trials. You didn't know that? .... :/
My message to the OP is this is what this website is all about. We all want to do this. So learn everything you can about running. You are going to have to run pretty high mileage for years but it may be possible. You won't know unless you try.