I recently ran a half-marathon in 1:25 (37 years old) running only 3 days per week, averaging about 24 miles per week. Two of those three days were jogging commutes to work with a backpack on, and the third run on the weekend was a tempo run or a long run. How much more do you think I would need to do to run a sub 3-hour marathon? I have never run a marathon before.
Low Mileage wrote:
I recently ran a half-marathon in 1:25 (37 years old) running only 3 days per week, averaging about 24 miles per week. Two of those three days were jogging commutes to work with a backpack on, and the third run on the weekend was a tempo run or a long run. How much more do you think I would need to do to run a sub 3-hour marathon? I have never run a marathon before.
This was basically me a year and a half back. I was running about the same without a specific tempo or long run, and I ran 1:24 (nice negative split). That being said, my every-other-day runs were all steady and probably higher quality than the jogging commutes.
My long saga in short, I think you can hit a sub-3 if you get to 3 months of 5/6 runs a week averaging 45 mpw with one workout, and one long run. I ran under 2:57 with that. You seem to of similar raw talent.
THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
Low Mileage wrote:
I recently ran a half-marathon in 1:25 (37 years old) running only 3 days per week, averaging about 24 miles per week. Two of those three days were jogging commutes to work with a backpack on, and the third run on the weekend was a tempo run or a long run. How much more do you think I would need to do to run a sub 3-hour marathon? I have never run a marathon before.
This was basically me a year and a half back. I was running about the same without a specific tempo or long run, and I ran 1:24 (nice negative split). That being said, my every-other-day runs were all steady and probably higher quality than the jogging commutes.
My long saga in short, I think you can hit a sub-3 if you get to 3 months of 5/6 runs a week averaging 45 mpw with one workout, and one long run. I ran under 2:57 with that. You seem to of similar raw talent.
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Thanks, appreciated.
I did the same but getting sub 3 is tough...13 is a totally different beast from 26. Make sure you get allot of high mileage weeks and long runs with some marathon pace thrown in.
I’m still trying for sub 3, at 3:02 after first try.
gsimmons2005 wrote:
I did the same but getting sub 3 is tough...13 is a totally different beast from 26. Make sure you get allot of high mileage weeks and long runs with some marathon pace thrown in.
I’m still trying for sub 3, at 3:02 after first try.
Do take the bolded part seriously. Maybe you're talented enough that it won't matter, but I know a runner with a HM PR close to 1:10 who keeps crashing hard in marathons. He'll go out at a comfortable marathon pace in line with his current HM fitness, and then hit the wall spectacularly at mile 21 and finish somewhere above three hours. Low mileage doesn't work for everybody.
"My long saga in short, I think you can hit a sub-3 if you get to 3 months of 5/6 runs a week averaging 45 mpw with one workout, and one long run. I ran under 2:57 with that. You seem to of similar raw talent."
I agree with this. I had a 1:18 HM and then 6 weeks of prep to hit a 3:01 marathon off 40mpw, with not enough long runs (3 road runs between 15 and 20 miles). So don't forget them.