Assuming right this second you are given someone who can only run a 5 hour marathon. How long of a timeframe (with very solid effort, following the plan to a T!) would you say it would take them to achieve a 3 hour flat marathon.
Assuming right this second you are given someone who can only run a 5 hour marathon. How long of a timeframe (with very solid effort, following the plan to a T!) would you say it would take them to achieve a 3 hour flat marathon.
anywhere between a year and never.
depends on the training for he 5 hours one
cotton sweatpants no underwear wrote:
anywhere between a year and never.
I think this is correct. I know of some people who train pretty consistently and intensely and never break 3:00:00. There's a lot of people who break 3:15:00 who never break 3:00:00.
On the flip side, if they have already trained for a marathon and could not get to 4:59:59, they are too heavy, too old, too physically weak, or too undertrained. Although there are most definitely people who can go from couch potato to sub 3 in less than a year, they either have talent that manifests itself in quicker than expected times at one, two or three miles, with virtually no training, or are excellent responders to a good training program. Someone who ran a 5 hour marathon is unlikely either of these.
Now, there are special situations, injured during the race, running at sub 6 minute per mile pace and walked in bravely for hours, ending up at 5 hours. Or, on a dare, someone with super little training does a run/walk deal to the finish line. Failing that sort of history, a year seems like the minimum and three something may be the final PR, rather than two something.
-2 hours.