Seems like everyone on here is significantly faster than your every day hobby jogger- how many can run a sub 3 marathon and how many tries did it take? what about prs?
Seems like everyone on here is significantly faster than your every day hobby jogger- how many can run a sub 3 marathon and how many tries did it take? what about prs?
oldandreallyslow wrote:
Seems like everyone on here is significantly faster than your every day hobby jogger- how many can run a sub 3 marathon and how many tries did it take?
Sub 3, as in Ethiopian sub 3? You won't find any here. Most of us aren't even sub 20.
Trained for six months, including one month off with injured hip. Ran first marathon in 3:15 (1:45, 1:30 splits). Took a week off, trained for another month, ran second marathon in 2:52 (1:28, 1:24 splits).
Ran 2:53 in my first attempt. 1:15 in the half. Had an awesome lead up to Boston this past year and fell apart after mile 14. It was a hot one.
I ran sub 3 in my 7th marathon. I finally done some research on training and talked to some faster runners. I then ran 3 sub 3s.
First marathon was 3:41, second marathon was 2:53
First marathon 2:22:20 age 21
Last marathon 3:25 age 55
Best young man marathon 2:19:15 age 23
Best old man marathon 2:57 age 54
In the Grand Scheme of things, sub 3 is a pretty good time. It is solidly under 7:00 mile pace and very few people who claim they are runners can run a 5k at that pace. Some with a lot of talent can do it easily. Most struggle or can't. The numbers don't lie though. This is pretty representative of big city marathon / WMM results:
Chicago 2016 : ~1000 under 3hr, 40,000 finishers = 2.5%