just looking for some advice on racing my 1st 100km race.
running a marathon in 4 weeks time aiming for 2:36/38.
i'm hoping to run a 100km race in late july.
i need to run sub 7:30 to meet selection needs.
can this be done off marathon training with some back to back runs over the weekends leading up to the race.
in other words will my marathon training base give me a good chance to reach the needed time.
any advice is welcomed
thanks
yes marathon training prepares you quiet well.
most any marathoner at your level can run/walk 50-60 miles without much effort they just don't realize it.
of course there will be mental challenges along with the fueling and pacing issues but you can figure that out.
the trick will be finding a jogging pace which is comfortably easy versus uncomfortably slow.
not an expert at all, but I trained for a 50mi road race last year off modified marathon training.
Only thing I did different was longer long runs. I do like the b2b long runs, and they would probably be better for something like a 100k. The 40+ mile single long runs really took a lot out of me. I think so much that my performance on race day suffered.
Good marathon training will get you most of the way there, but a few weekends of back to back 26-35 milers are advised as is some practice dialing in your fluid/nutrition.
dsrunner wrote:
yes marathon training prepares you quiet well.
most any marathoner at your level can run/walk 50-60 miles without much effort they just don't realize it.
of course there will be mental challenges along with the fueling and pacing issues but you can figure that out.
the trick will be finding a jogging pace which is comfortably easy versus uncomfortably slow.
100 km in 7,30 is 4,30/km. Only a world class runner would call that "jogging".
Thanks for the advice guys, the pace would be 7:14 per mile to get the needed time. my marathon pace is 6 - 6.10 per mile pace.
going to have a cut off it anyway but i do think the back to back runs will have to be done.