Realistic pace goals for marathon (Read 974 times)

Is that a typo?

We'll give you one guess! :-)

Sorry.  That's my fault.  Sarcasm and general ass-ishness are hard to portray over the interwebz.  If anything serious ever does come out of my mouth, you'll know it.  Until then, take whatever I type with a grain of salt.

 

But I really don't know who the marathon record holder is.  I'm guessing it's not actually anyone here at RA, right?

Assuming this isn't also sarcastic and I'm just being an idiot...

The answer is Patrick Makau. Sadly, to the best of my knowledge, I don't believe he is a member of runningahead as awesome as that would be. 

I'm guessing it's not actually anyone here at RA, right?

It's chilidogbeagle.  Am I talking to myself here or what?

No.  The world record holder is actually chillidogbeagle.  How do you not know this?

mara date	time	mpw	notes
2009-10-25	4:03	50-60	weekly long runs up to 20
2011-10-30	3:55	40-60	weekly long runs up to 20

 

Wait. Aug 26. training run of 20mi @ 8:52 pace. That's faster than 3:55 marathon pace.

 

I'm no expert, just another complete amateur, but that sounds like you have strength to improve already, plus you have months to train.

holy crap, you are good... for a nominal fee would you come and organize the rest of my life this nicely?

Someone told me the trick of going to Training Log and then clicking on Calendar, and then you can pick some month in the past and get a nice review of the training for that month -- plus if you pause your mouse over any of the listed runs, details will popup.

They should build a website around something like that.  People would flock to it.

It's chilidogbeagle.  Am I talking to myself here or what?

I was just playing detective and asking the question a couple of different ways to see if I would get conflicting answers, but you held to your story, so it must be true.  Hooray, CDB!

And thank you Law and Order.