6 minute marathon PB on no long runs - where is the logic?

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Fenland Runner Feb 2012 5:45pm, 1 Feb 2012 12,094 posts	0 Fenland Runner Surrey, definitely NO, you record the event you entered.
Ninky Nonk Feb 2012 6:35pm, 1 Feb 2012 41 posts	0 Ninky Nonk Curly - what if you scale the durations of exercise relative to the event. I'm just talking in broad terms - so simagine you had a twin and one of you did the lsr of twice the duration of the max effort shorter runs, but run half as frequent, and at easy pace. Then you raced at say a third over the lsr distance (133%) who would win? What about a race equal to short run length? Has anyone got a cloning chamber I can borrow to check your answer is right?
Ninky Nonk Feb 2012 6:46pm, 1 Feb 2012 42 posts	0 Ninky Nonk Or failing that point me in the direction of some authorative paper based on rats or monkeys or something...
Curly45 Feb 2012 6:48pm, 1 Feb 2012 43 posts	0 Curly45 Sorry Ninky - I am confused about what you are saying (I have cold and am a bit fuzzy headed)... I was suggesting that your lsrs should be relevant to your distance and to where you are in training at the moment and where you are on your running journey. The marathon is a bit of a special case for most runners since it involves going over glycogen depletion so part of the training is to adjust to this. Hmmm thats probably not very clear! FR - I broadly agree that variety is important but easy miles need to be the bulk of your training. Also running 4 times a week wouldnt improve me since I already run 8-10 times a week - exactly what I was referring to with regards to specificity.
Blackbird Leys ( boy) Feb 2012 7:43pm, 1 Feb 2012 1,521 posts	0 Blackbird Leys ( boy) deep man. I just run.
rf_fozzy Feb 2012 9:40pm, 1 Feb 2012 1,703 posts	0 rf_fozzy I don't, I orienteer as well. And swim and play hockey.
Night-owl Feb 2012 10:31pm, 1 Feb 2012 12,828 posts	0 Night-owl Water hockey - bet thats lethal
Nellers Feb 2012 10:45pm, 1 Feb 2012 19,953 posts	0 Nellers Octopush, I think it's called, N-O. gbuwh.co.uk
Fenland Runner Feb 2012 6:14am, 2 Feb 2012 12,099 posts	0 Fenland Runner Curly45, 8-10 times!!!!! Are you elite?
Blackbird Leys ( boy) Feb 2012 7:52am, 2 Feb 2012 1,524 posts	0 Blackbird Leys ( boy) No Fozzy, i mean when i'm running. Fenland- i am .