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RE: Marathon Post #5 #runforsteem
Why is the age of your kids holding you back? My family is coming with me and we're going to make a long weekend of it.
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Hahaha! Well, my children are 11 and 7 years old... My wife also works and I'm working and traveling a lot due to work... Believe me, I know what Marathon training means, even if you want just to be a finisher you have to stick to the plan...
Marathon is one of the best experiences you can ever live but also really a very demanding race man... You have to be really trained in order to ensure you will finish that distance.
Actually, with my current available time, I can manage to do good times in 5K, 10k and half... and frankly, I'm not feeling the need of running another marathon right now...
On Sunday this week there is Barcelona Marathon. There I have prepared 3 of my Running colleagues in order to break the 3 hours time...I will accompany them from the 30th to the end because I know how hard it will become after that point. One of them is 33' in 10k, he should be able to get 2h45' easily but, believe me when I tell you that he is the only one on which I have my doubts about breaking 3h time since he didn't follow the plan and volume.
The race time is not important, you have to be strict with yourself and stick to the plan.
Of course if you plan to finish at 5h time you don't need to do fast intervals workout but only volume in kms.
That's why I told you try to do a half marathon and see what you will be able to achieve comfortably 😜
I never had the urge to do a marathon, but now that I'm into running and enjoying it so much it's something I'd like to do and achieve before I'm 40.
I think it will help a lot that I'll have a colleague with me all the way, not just every training (except weekends), but also there in Valencia. I have the feeling that once we're in the rhythm we'll forget he distance, did I mention he loves to talk?! It helps a lot as it distracts from the runs we do, if we both manage to stay in our routine and stick to our pace, I think we should be able to do it. We currently run 5,5min/km so that's something we could still improve, but it's not a priority for us.
That pace will allow you to go below 4 h man ;-), not bad target for starting on marathon.
Actually I see you can do 3h45', easily
That's the thing, I'm happy with my pace. If I can maintain that for 42 km, I'll be really happy, that's also why the focus on stamina.