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The Sub 3:15 Marathon Thread

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Curly45 Mar 2018 3:40pm, 29 Mar 2018 3,489 posts	Quote Pin Curly45 Wow 25k at MP in training
K5 Gus Mar 2018 3:42pm, 29 Mar 2018 2,547 posts	Quote Pin K5 Gus PtB - Hi Paul, can you take me off the sidebar please, definitely not doing Manchester. Good luck to everyone during your tapers, take care and don't do anything silly and ruin all that hard work you've put in.
jdarun Mar 2018 3:49pm, 29 Mar 2018 2,653 posts	Quote Pin jdarun Yes Curly Jack Daniels has some tough old workouts even in the easier version of the plan that I have. But fortunately not very many of them.
RussellW Mar 2018 3:53pm, 29 Mar 2018 145 posts	Quote Pin RussellW Good to hear Curly! not so good Gus, nothing too silly left for me in my taper. At HG request, I have written a wee blog on my Manchester training for anyone that is interested! Not hugely entertaining as it's just a cut, paste and a small edit from the weekly updates I send to my coach. Those who like a LSR might want to steer clear
Curly45 Mar 2018 4:05pm, 29 Mar 2018 3,490 posts	Quote Pin Curly45 I need a lie down reading your training RussellW... you should smash it. That 23 mile long run is something else. Wow.
paul the builder Mar 2018 4:11pm, 29 Mar 2018 6,358 posts	Quote Pin paul the builder Sorry to hear that Gus.
HappyG(rrr) Mar 2018 6:20pm, 29 Mar 2018 28,504 posts	Quote Pin HappyG(rrr) Sensible decision though Gus, I'm sure. Russell, I shall devour. I hope you've done some slower, long running though or else marathon endurance is what suffers. I'm sure you'll be good though. Jda, I did 14 miles, so 23K? at MP in a 20 miler as part of a sort of extended P&D for my longest, hardest MP run. Tough, but builds confidence. G
Bazoaxe Mar 2018 6:45pm, 29 Mar 2018 12,781 posts	Quote Pin Bazoaxe Gus, thats a shame. You have missed a few over the years which is annoying. JDA, not often your JD session is more than mine. I have 6 mp, 1 tempo and 6 more MP in an 18 miler this weekend so 21k for me and like HG I think 14 at MP is as much as I have done.
jdarun Mar 2018 8:28pm, 29 Mar 2018 2,656 posts	Quote Pin jdarun I think technically it's written as 15 miles but I run in km and have rounded up by 1. There are actually two of those at 3 and 7 weeks and another 12-13 mile MP run at 10 weeks. I always swap at least one of these for a raced half however.
bakedbeano Mar 2018 9:20pm, 29 Mar 2018 77 posts	Quote Pin bakedbeano OK i shall confess, i am a lazy guy. I do reasonable distance but have little discipline. I want to improve my marathon time to sub3:20 from 3:25 last autumn. I do little structured work. Larkim mentioned running parts of my long runs at marathon pace. How would you plan this, 1:4 ratio?

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For those who want to go sub 3.15 in a marathon and/or those that have already done it and want to give advice. Share your journey or help someone else's here.

2025 targets:

Chicago 12 Oct: Mark
Abingdon 19 Oct: Clare

2025 achievers:
Charles 3:07 @ Ghent
Mark 3:07 @ Christchurch

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