Undertrained wrote:
Ran a marathon in 4:11 with my highest training week of 29 mpw. Probably averaged 20-25 mpw for the last 8 weeks.
Other than asking why and telling me I have no business running a marathon on such low mileage... how much can I lower my time if I trained seriously and put in 50-60 mpw?
(0) You do have a business running a marathon on such low mileage. It's totally up to you and thousands of runners run marathons with lower mileage than you. It's just much more fun with high mileage.
(1) No reason to be proud low mileage.
(2) My girlfriend ran faster (on less mileage, but remember: low mileage is nothing to be proud of)
(3) Nobody know what you could do with higher mileage. Most probably faster.
(4) Train and get back to us.