Sub 3 hour Marathon.

[Tahr]

The worst pace to train at in my view is junk mileage at 7.0 - 7.15 , do that and the marathon will feel too fast to maintain.

Hi Mike that leaves me in a bit of a dilemma, to crack the 3 hours I need to run at a bit under 7 minute mile pace (6:52 I think) therefore I was going to do a long run for 10 miles adding a mile per week up to 18 miles at 7 MMP, is that pace for me “Junk miles?” also what about slower runs say 8-9 MMP would they be classed as junk miles or endurance building, this is road running, not obviously hill running.

then the bulk of my mileage is around 6:50-6:55 pace..

Hi Iain, thanks for your input, as I would guess you would be a lot faster than I would every be should I try and do a bulk of my mileage at 7:30 pace? Is this then junk mileage for me?

really dont trust strava for your stats, it plays havoc with mine and many others that i know. It has a habit of not calculating distance or time correctly

Hi Cyclops, I know what you mean with Strava, I timed my run with my Suunto the total time on the watch was the same as the Strava time so it must have been about right, although I did leg 2 of the BG in 3:36 hours the other week, while I know my actual time was a bit over 4 hours, even allowing for a few stops to talk to other BGs, photos, pausing for checking compass in the clag did not add up to half an hour. (be nice if it did mind).

Started training with marathon in mind yesterday, ran 10 miles in the morning with rucksack (to work) then at night 7 miles with a club training session wearing a weight vest, mile warm up followed by hill reps, 250m hill, 30% incline on the road, sprint up then jog back as recovery rep X 19. cool down jog back to start.

ATB

Tahr