FFF wrote:
Brad being Brad wrote:
This right here. Parker thinks he's doing a "workout" at a pace slower than marathon pace, but in fact he just did 35k at marathon pace or faster. His best performance of this block of training might have been this workout.
Or, it might not be. He may have nailed it. Regardless, the weather is going to play the biggest issue in this marathon. Far more than Parker's killer 35K effort.
I was thinking back to a race I ran in 1986, that went poorly. I looked at my records, and found I'd run 10 miles hard the day before. That may have had something to do with it. Then I noticed another race where I set a PR. The day before, I ran harder than my 10 miles, but only ran 8. Go figure.
I know you're replying to Brad, but just to clarify, my post was not a critique of Parker's run but rather just a comment on comparing what he did to what Kipchoge did. Without knowing the full context of Parker's run (i.e. the goal of the workout, the rest of his training, how he recovers from workouts, etc), it would be really hard to offer any meaningful critique.
I will admit that I once did a 15 mile tempo on a Monday and then set a CR at a 10 mile race that Thursday. It worked out fine that week, but it's not something I would find sustainable doing very often over the course of a training block.