The Sub 3:15 Marathon Thread

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7:08pm, 19 Oct 2016
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Jovi Runner
I'm in Berlin on a deferred entry from this year.
Oct 2016
7:16pm, 19 Oct 2016
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Bazoaxe
WW - welcome to my world (of falling)

Re the JD plan, I will look at it again nearer the time and decide. The lack of LRs did worry me but the 2 x hard runs a week look a bit daunting, especially the midweek one
Oct 2016
7:43pm, 19 Oct 2016
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Jovi Runner
Am I the only one who thinks of the alcoholic beverage anytime anyone mentions the Jack Daniels training plan, no, only me then :)
Oct 2016
7:52pm, 19 Oct 2016
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STOOSH
lol WW - good to see your keeping bazo's seat on the bench warm whilst he's relatively injury free ;-)

I'll be following the usual stoosh plan over winter in the run up to London!

I have 1 usable pair of trainers and a few worse for wear pairs if that counts as multiple pairs??
Oct 2016
8:01pm, 19 Oct 2016
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Daz Love
WW - Yes see your fall on strava as well! Sounds pretty nasty.

I always just have the one pair of trainers of the go (apart from a trail pair that are awful and I have had for about 3 years and hardly use) When these get to near c600 miles I grab another pair.
Oct 2016
8:20pm, 19 Oct 2016
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Westley
Briefly checking in and belated congratulations to Stoosh and Lou Lou!
Oct 2016
9:29am, 20 Oct 2016
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UsedToRunaBit
Crikey WW, what have you done!? How long you out for? No lasting damage I hope?

I'm just ticking over at the moment, now out of my base phase and adding in some quality work now. Ran first XC race last weekend and legs have been stiff as planks since then, but ran pretty well considering the easy z2 stuff I've been doing!

I went and tried to do some XC specific threshold session last night, on the local rugby fields in the dark with a head torch, it helps to think there are mad men out there watching you with night vision goggles armed with evil dogs to help keep the pace up :-/
Oct 2016
8:12pm, 22 Oct 2016
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Joe Hawk
#Tumbleweed#
Oct 2016
3:11pm, 23 Oct 2016
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Uyuni
In that case its probably time to start fretting about the weather for Ljubljana next Sunday

Unreliable long range forecast currently says, sunny 14'C and a 4 mph wind - I'll take that :-)
Oct 2016
10:36pm, 23 Oct 2016
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LouLou
Thanks Westley!

Love a bit of long range forecast taper madness Uyuni!

Have decided to start my year of madness next year by entering the Highland Fling 53 mile ultra instead of my usual Spring marathon. Will probably do Stirling Marathon 4 weeks after as it is very local! And any race starting in a safari park has to be entertaining!

About This Thread

Maintained by Windsor Wool
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.

2024 declarations:

Milan 7/4: Charles
Manchester 14/4: allmatthew, Fergus
Rotterdam 14/4: Akie
Christchurch NZ 21/4: Mark J
London 21/4: KS, larkim
Boston UK 28/4: SJA
Copenhagen 5/5: bowman

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2023 sub 3:15s:

Bowman: 3:06:57 (Växjö), 3:09 (Jönköping)
charlesvdw: 3:03:33 (Berlin), 3:07:55 (London)
chrismean: 3:12:45 (London)
FergusG: 3:13:41 (Manchester)
JDA: 2:52:48 (Manchester)
larkim: 3:09:30 (London)
Rossco: 3:05:15 (NYC)
WW: 3:05:45 (Manchester)

Other very notable 2023 performances:

allmatthew: 3:17:40 (Manchester)
Clare: 3:16:59 (London)
KS: 3:35:13 (London)
tipsku: 3:29:36 (Leipzig)

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