First attempt at a marathon! (Read 1035 times)

Hey runner, good luck with the marathon. You're running it this afternoon? On a one-mile loop? That sounds absolutely crazy. How's the overall training going on your 4:30 mile and your eventual 4:00 mile? If you are running marathons as training runs in less than four hours, I'd think you have to be feeling pretty good.

Zoomie...I see you have your 15k PR struck out...what gives?

I got it last month...though I am going for an even better PR in that distance in June--on a course with minimal hills and no snow!

Hey runner, good luck with the marathon. You're running it this afternoon? On a one-mile loop? That sounds absolutely crazy.

I really want to get through it. I'll let you all know what happens. I doubt I'll stay on the 1 mile loop, we'll see what happens - I don't really know what I want to use as a route, like I said a post ago, I'll just play it by ear.

How's the overall training going on your 4:30 mile and your eventual 4:00 mile? If you are running marathons as training runs in less than four hours, I'd think you have to be feeling pretty good.

Training is going well so far. The main reason I'm considering doing a marathon is because I wanted to break 200 miles this month, and I have to run another 25 today in order to do that, so I figured I'd just run a marathon to see what it'll be like to run for that amount of time at a pretty easy pace. I'm coming off of base in May after a brief recovery from the 80+ mile week I put myself through last week and (if I succeed in running it) the marathon. I'm excited about starting a regimen of higher intensity workouts! BTW, I broke the 5 minute mile on March 27th, with a time of 4:56. Haven't tried for a PR since then, although I did run a half marathon during a training run in 1 hour and 28 minutes on April 21st.

Hello all! I start training for my first marathon in about 2 weeks. Probably will be the Baltimore. Then followed by a second marathon at either MC or Raleigh City of Oaks. I think I will run Baltimore to finish as a goal. Then run the second for time.

Thanks for the warning. I totally agree with you. Sarcasm is difficult to convey in semantics, but that's what the haha was for. I guess I could have used one of the tongue similes. And, CarmelRunner, I'll be on a 1 mile loop course in my neighborhood so if I have an "Oh god I have to stop now" moment, walking back isn't much of an issue.

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Good call. For me, the toughest part of running is figuring out when to HTFU (through discomfort) and when to break it off (due to intense pain/injury). My rule of thumb is when in doubt, call it a day.

Good call. For me, the toughest part of running is figuring out when to HTFU (through discomfort) and when to break it off (due to intense pain/injury). My rule of thumb is when in doubt, call it a day.

I'm still working on that one myself, Ed.