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HTFU? Why not!
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You can do it but second 1/2 will not be fun.
8 weeks will give you time to get your long run up to 16+ miles. Just add a mile to long run each week.
See if you can get your base miles up to 30+ per week.
Find a 1/2 you can run in 5-6 weeks. When I ran my 1st 1/2 I put off my 1st marathon till the next year but you are much younger and fitter than I was.
So my gf and my two sister are running a marathon in 8 weeks and I have offered to drive them and watch. My question is can I run it with them as a surprise? Now I would have truants right along with them but my schedule doesn't allow it. See I am a minor league baseball pitcher. So I haven't just been sitting around. We do small conditioning everyday and I can run 6-7 miles easily. I recently ran 9 miles because I had some steam to blow off and did it in an hour. I am also done with baseball in a week. My my question is: how should I go about it? any pointers would be appreciated. I also feel that in race day I will have a motor adrenalin rush and be able to finish if I just pace myself. I am extremely mentally tough and want to do this. Thank you everyone. Wish me luck billy Which Marathon are you running? I’m running The Perkins Great Eastern run in October and I follow their training guide, have you thought about using a training guide? This may help you. http://www.perkinsgreateasternrun.co.uk/training-guide
So my gf and my two sister are running a marathon in 8 weeks and I have offered to drive them and watch. My question is can I run it with them as a surprise? Now I would have truants right along with them but my schedule doesn't allow it. See I am a minor league baseball pitcher. So I haven't just been sitting around. We do small conditioning everyday and I can run 6-7 miles easily. I recently ran 9 miles because I had some steam to blow off and did it in an hour. I am also done with baseball in a week.
My my question is:
how should I go about it?
any pointers would be appreciated.
I also feel that in race day I will have a motor adrenalin rush and be able to finish if I just pace myself. I am extremely mentally tough and want to do this.
Thank you everyone. Wish me luck
billy
Which Marathon are you running? I’m running The Perkins Great Eastern run in October and I follow their training guide, have you thought about using a training guide? This may help you. http://www.perkinsgreateasternrun.co.uk/training-guide
Normally I'd say go for it. I have little tolerance for people who always crying about the possibility of injury. However, if I were a minor league ball player I wouldn't do it. I searched your name and if I have the correct person you're at the bottom starting to climb the ladder and have some potential. That means you should be doing a lot of off season work, maybe even including winter ball down south. Increasing your mileage so much could easily lead to some problems such as tendinitis etc. While that may not be something the average person would be terribly concerned about, I could see that affecting your mechanics possibly for several months. I would ask myself if running a marathon would be worth the potential set back in your baseball career.
Just food for thought.
You can always drop out without shame.
There will always be shame. The entry fee purchases the bliss of finishing a marathon. And a Tshirt. Which you have to give back if you don't finish the marathon