SonicDeathMonkey80 Member

They're useless unless someone is an elite who has PRs that all correlate, per McMillan. I think most hobby runners like us match up until the predicted marathon time. Plug a recent marathon time in there and those easy paces change drastically.

Easy, and all effort in general, is not subjective. Paces are subjective. My easy pace is the same effort as Meb's, but he covers a longer distance than me :)

Based on my most recent race, McMillan has my easy as being 7:14-8:14 (for reference, my goal marathon pace is 7:45). It also has my marathon at a 7:07 pace, which it clearly is not, but is also not being considered in this recommendation. This is why calculators will screw people up every single time, unless you're that…

You have symptoms of overtraining (dreading runs, DNF'ing workouts). Your brain isn't happy with what you're making your body do, so address what you're making your body do rather than pushing through it and being miserable. What does your plan look like, past few weeks and next few weeks? What's your goal?

Use whatever the official results of the race are. I don't adjust my Garmin data - I can readily provide proof of my PRs when needed via www.athlinks.com

My first was a mistake, and I'm lucky I didn't get injured (went into it on 20MPW, 600 lifetime miles). I just took that year off of marathons and worked on building my easy mileage base, and went into Air Force Marathon with about 45-50MPW and 2500 lifetime miles, zero speedwork. Success was miles on top of miles on top…

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What I did in the year between my first and second marathon, which were an hour apart in times, was concentrate on building my volume from 20 to 45-50 MPW. However, I neglected to do an acceptable amount of long runs, but the mileage was there. Before starting any of that, I would get a fresh race (Heart Mini, maybe?) to…

1 - 12mi, easy 2 - 8.2mi, easy 3 - 8.2mi, tempo 4 - 10mi, easy w/FF 5 - 8mi, intervals 6 - 8mi, easy+3.2mi, tempo 7 - 18mi, easy 8 - Rest 9 - 7.2mi, easy 10 - 6.3mi, easy 11 - 6.5mi, easy 12 - Rest 13 - 5.2mi, easy w/strides 14 - 3.14mi, easy 15 - 13.1, race 16 - 3mi, recovery 17 - Rest 18 - 6mi, easy Easy 6 at 8:20, kept…

Oops, I meant like 9.5-10. I'm not mathy in the morning lol

Oh Lori ya made me blush :) I'm sure there were plenty of bruised scapulas to go around. It's just the way it goes when you're running 8-12MPH through a crowd of folks going 5MPH. Hopefully the weather cooperates next year because it is a great race if you can cross the Roebling and Purple People bridges. Oh well - we both…

Heart Mini Half Marathon - 1:28:42

1 - 12mi, easy 2 - 8.2mi, easy 3 - 8.2mi, tempo 4 - 10mi, easy w/FF 5 - 8mi, intervals 6 - 8mi, easy+3.2mi, tempo 7 - 18mi, easy 8 - Rest 9 - 7.2mi, easy 10 - 6.3mi, easy 11 - 6.5mi, easy 12 - Rest 13 - 5.2mi, easy w/strides 14 - 3.14mi, easy 15 - 13.1, race 16 - 3mi, recovery 17 - Rest 3 easy, easy miles just to get my…

Columbus is my BQ attempt :) My first half was a 2:29. I keep it on the Athlinks just to remind myself from where I came.

I started right there 5 years ago ;)

1 - 12mi, easy 2 - 8.2mi, easy 3 - 8.2mi, tempo 4 - 10mi, easy w/FF 5 - 8mi, intervals 6 - 8mi, easy+3.2mi, tempo 7 - 18mi, easy 8 - Rest 9 - 7.2mi, easy 10 - 6.3mi, easy 11 - 6.5mi, easy 12 - Rest 13 - 5.2mi, easy w/strides 14 - 3.14mi, easy 15 - 13.1, race Half marathon PR by 6min Check out my 13.2 mi Run on Strava:…

1 - 12mi, easy 2 - 8.2mi, easy 3 - 8.2mi, tempo 4 - 10mi, easy w/FF 5 - 8mi, intervals 6 - 8mi, easy+3.2mi, tempo 7 - 18mi, easy 8 - Rest 9 - 7.2mi, easy 10 - 6.3mi, easy 11 - 6.5mi, easy 12 - Rest 13 - 5.2mi, easy w/strides 14 - 3.14mi, easy Pi miles today for my shakeout run. Next post will be half marathon results :)…

More easy time on your feet is never a bad thing, regarding your training. I cringe when I see people train fast and race either the same pace or slower. Running is one of those sports where the object is to NOT give 100% every time you go out there :)

My motivation comes from Chipotle burrito bowls :D

I'm so trying this lol

Depends on if you're doing one of those "undies runs" I suppose :D

That "it's all mental" stuff is best saved for those "fitspiration" pictures, which really mean nothing.

That "forget distance and work on speed" advice is garbage. Aim to complete your first half, and do that by nothing but easy miles. You don't need the speedwork yet, especially if your long run is 12:30 miles. Your body isn't there yet and you'll get marginal benefits vs the chance to injure yourself.

Wear a hat and nothing that will rust

Man, 6mos ago, I thought I could make this work, but I can't without jeopardizing my marathon (and possibly, relationship haha) because I was already signed up for Run The Bluegrass HM that Saturday. Tell Noelton Hill I said "eff off" and you better join the ranks of the Half Fanatics after your four in a row - guaranteed…

1 - 12mi, easy 2 - 8.2mi, easy 3 - 8.2mi, tempo 4 - 10mi, easy w/FF 5 - 8mi, intervals 6 - 8mi, easy+3.2mi, tempo 7 - 18mi, easy 8 - Rest 9 - 7.2mi, easy 10 - 6.3mi, easy 11 - 6.5mi, easy 12 - Rest 13 - 5.2mi, easy w/strides Love strides! Total: 100mi Mar goal: 250mi (adjusted per coach's schedule)

Chicken

Let me know how this works out for you around week 9.

I'm in, mainly for some ridiculous answers. The question? Completely relative to your abilities. Start with www.halhigdon.com and work your way up from there.