5k 1 week after marathon?

Physically impossible. Nope.

In short: yeah, its a terrible idea.

But if you're hobby jogger then who cares have some fun. If you're a competitive runner, take 2 weeks off after Chicago with no running then ease back into training.

What do you mean "stupid"? There's nothing stupid about it at all. You probably won't run a PR, but if you want to do it, who cares?

You wont run a good time but as long as you dont push yourself too hard there's no reason not to.

Depends. Generally a bad idea, but Kawauchi ran a sub-2:12 CR in Sydney last year then a 5000m track PB 7 days later, so it's not impossible.

I don't think that it is a big deal. Don't expect a PR or anything, but I don't think you'll do any lasting damage. I actually did set a 5k PR 5 days after running Boston, but my 5k PR is admittedly weak (16:19 at the time; 1:13:30/2:39:49 for the longer distances).

162430 wrote:

I don't think that it is a big deal. Don't expect a PR or anything, but I don't think you'll do any lasting damage. I actually did set a 5k PR 5 days after running Boston, but my 5k PR is admittedly weak (16:19 at the time; 1:13:30/2:39:49 for the longer distances).

This is in the scope of what I'm trying to do - I ran a 2:40 and this 5k offers a pretty decent amount of prize money, and based on last year's results I think all I need to do is about 16:30 to get the win.

I think this depends on how much at 2:40 took out of you. The fact that you are even considering this is a very good sign that you are recovering well from the marathon. Still be cautious and don't be afraid to drop out of the 5K.

Could the course have been long last year? There is a good chance that some other runners have the same idea that you do (and don't have a marathon in their legs from a week ago!).

Did this 3 times, never had a problem. Boston Peace Marathon, the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Schenectady Cardiac Classic 5k, Thanksgiving Day. BPM was my debut marathon, senior year of college, ran a solid time based on my college 8k/10k results (had never raced longer than 10k other than a couple 50k ski races). Was planning on running SCC easy with my sister but at the mile she told me to go on ahead and I ended up about 15 seconds off my 5k pr. Next 2 years I did the same schedule. Ran marathon pr's both years at BPM and ran within 5-10 seconds of my 5k pr at SCC.

I didn't do much running between those races...nothing Monday, ~20-30 minutes Tuesday-Wednesday. Just tried to walk around a bunch and do a little extra stretching to shake the crust off the marathon legs. Back to regular training the day after the turkey trot trying to get ready for ski season.

Also used to do a triathlon the weekend after Boston, just a sprint distance tri to kick off the season. But Boston was never a real A-race for me the timing didn't work for a good training block leading into it.

To me it all depends on how your training cycle was leading up to Chicago and how much that race took out of you. At minimum, since you're thinking of doing this and the way you're writing doesn't indicate that you're dreading the thought of another race, why not try it and see how it feels? It's certainly not conventional to race so soon after a marathon but until you try it you won't know where your limits are.

try not to let down your teammates, again.

You ran 2:40 in Chicago? That is also where I just set my PR. I bet we saw each other on the course.

contemplating wrote:

162430 wrote:

I don't think that it is a big deal. Don't expect a PR or anything, but I don't think you'll do any lasting damage. I actually did set a 5k PR 5 days after running Boston, but my 5k PR is admittedly weak (16:19 at the time; 1:13:30/2:39:49 for the longer distances).

This is in the scope of what I'm trying to do - I ran a 2:40 and this 5k offers a pretty decent amount of prize money, and based on last year's results I think all I need to do is about 16:30 to get the win.

win the 5k then take your well deserved 2 week break

NotAustin18 wrote:

win the 5k then take your well deserved 2 week break

This. And I'm much older than you. I ran the NYC marathon once and a week later decide to enter a small 5k turkey trot and won my gender category. I shocked myself. Yeah, call me a hobby jogger--I was pleased that day...:)

A friend of mine ran his marathon PR one week and the following week ran a good 5k on the track.

So he recovered from the marathon pretty quickly. It took him a lot longer to recover from the 5k.

;-)