Sub 3Hr Marathon

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Alun 22 Apr 5:18pm, 22 Apr 2024 204 posts	0 Alun Well done Chris and LMH, great running in the circumstances!! Thanks all, yesterday was very tough despite all of the training but I trusted that training and was rewarded with Sub 3 a week short of turning 58! I'll be taking it easy for (quite) a few days and will then look to prepare for the upcoming track season, six veterans' league meetings starting on the 17th with races including 800m, 1500m and 3000m plus the county 5,000m and 10,000m championships and the British Masters' 10,000m championships. I won't be ignoring the road racing either, quite a few 5 mile and 10km races to tackle alongside the North Down Run (30km of hilly trail) which also doubles as the British Masters' Multi-Terrain championships. Before long it'll be time for the cross country season to start... No rest for the wicked!
Brunski 22 Apr 5:19pm, 22 Apr 2024 2,360 posts	0 Brunski Thanks LMH, yeah really helpful thinking of it like that 👍🏻
Alun 22 Apr 5:25pm, 22 Apr 2024 205 posts	0 Alun Little Miss Happy wrote:Chris - I obviously didn't try hard enough, legs are fine apart from my right adductor which I think is going to prevent running for a few days. Fortunately I still have the list of exercises the physio gave me when it was an issue months ago. No idea why they've suddenly become a problem - it was the left one after London 2022. My quads are very sore but I'm also getting the feeling that my adductors aren't terribly happy either...
jda 22 Apr 5:38pm, 22 Apr 2024 16,926 posts	0 jda What LMH said is very much how I think of marathons - at least, the decent ones I've done. Of course you still have to pick the pace that makes it happen....
Little Miss Happy 6:26am 6:26am, 23 Apr 2024 7,118 posts	0 Little Miss Happy You definitely need to be realistic jda - and be prepared to let it go if you haven't been able to settle to the intended pace within the first couple of miles.
rhb 8:08am 8:08am, 23 Apr 2024 2,244 posts	0 rhb Solid run LMH too. Impulsive me is ready to enter Leeds on 12th May, sensible me Abingdon, and carried away me MCR '25. How bad would Leeds go? 😅🤣
rhb 8:09am 8:09am, 23 Apr 2024 2,245 posts	0 rhb MCR '25 clashes with partners 50th so unlikely an option tbh, will look at earlier races next spring.
jda 8:23am 8:23am, 23 Apr 2024 16,928 posts	0 jda Leeds should be fine, that's a 4 week gap. You won't be measurably fitter but you might pace it a little better and you'll remember what the last 6 miles feels like! I've twice done a 2nd big race shortly after Mancs marathon and they both went pretty well. One was a 4 week gap, the other 6 weeks. Both super hilly races (3 peaks fell race and Bentham marathon respectively) but I'd done a bit of hill running through the marathon so wasn't completely taken by surprise.
Windsor Wool 8:40am 8:40am, 23 Apr 2024 6,289 posts	0 Windsor Wool I heard that Leeds wasn't the easiest course. Abingdon is flaaaaaaat!