Personally, I like to go up to 2.5 hours which is my limit other than race day but how do you prepare someone who is much slower to cover that distance?
Personally, I like to go up to 2.5 hours which is my limit other than race day but how do you prepare someone who is much slower to cover that distance?
No. The problem I see is that the recovery from a 4 hr run is going to screw up many, many days of training after for those folks.
3 hr limit IMHO.
a 4 hour marathoner should get in better shape before they run a marathon
luv2run wrote:
No. The problem I see is that the recovery from a 4 hr run is going to screw up many, many days of training after for those folks.
3 hr limit IMHO.
How often would you prescribe a 3-hour run?
Every 3rd week MAX
the long run wrote:
luv2run wrote:No. The problem I see is that the recovery from a 4 hr run is going to screw up many, many days of training after for those folks.
3 hr limit IMHO.
How often would you prescribe a 3-hour run?
no wrote:
a 4 hour marathoner should get in better shape before they run a marathon
There are a lot of runners who try but are simply not as talented. The person I am asking for does run/walk intervals...3:1s
This is the Galloway program. He has runners do 26 miles in training. If you are at 9:00min/mile, you are out there 4 hours. Everyone I know in this category is a former runner....burnt out.
I firmly believe in maxing it at 3 hours. These runners would be better increasing mileage during the week.
Four hour training runs? Why? Four hour plus Marathoners can focus on training for sub-19:15 5K/sub-40 10K/sub-70 10 mile. Marathon time will improve without extremely long training runs.
My fear is burnout too. But how do you get through 26 miles without having done more than say 12-14 in training? Just the will to survive I guess. Some of these runners feel the need to cover 20-24 miles in training because mentally it helps to know on race day that you’ve physically prepared but I’m not so sure.
If Marathoners want to go on 20 to 24 mile training runs, enjoy. Not necessary to race sub-4 hours though. A few (3) 30K training runs should be enough.
I don't think they should run over 2.5 hours for a long run.
I will bet that most people who run 4h long runs won't run even 5 days per week, so they try to jam in as much into 1 long run. They'd be better off running 2x2h runs over the weekend, or just increasing their mileage generally, not just increasing the long run.