malmo wrote:
shsbbaba wrote:
Then there’s his training (public from Strava):
- Consistent weeks of 100-110miles over many months consecutively
- Multiple 40minute tempos at 4:50 pace (8+ Miles)
- 10mi tempo over hills at 5:06 pace
- Lots of 7-10mi fartleks averaging around 5minute pace
- Lots of 18-20milers at or under 6:00 pace
For someone training for 5000m, I would he certainly displays a lot of traits for someone with potential to run well in the marathon; most notably, durability.
Those workouts that you cited are the stuff that 2:15 - 2:16 marathoners do. If that's your case for marathoning ability then True should stick with the track.
Doing a long tempo workout at 4:50 pace would indicate a VDOT of about 77-79, which is 2:10 marathon territory. Which would be more in line with his 5k and half marathon times, not 2:15-2:16.