The Sub 3:15 Marathon Thread
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Oct 2024
3:10pm, 19 Oct 2024
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Bowman 🇸🇪
Thanks @larkim , na I just think it’s down to bad luck this autumn. I usually been ok before, even with harder training and more stress  Just have been a ”perfect storm” lately I guess. |
Oct 2024
3:31pm, 19 Oct 2024
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SPR
@Bowman 🇸🇪 you can't beat yourself about why you can't run easy pace after more than 13 miles while being ill. I'm sure many of us have been ill and struggled with running full stop. Just seems something that you can't do anything about.
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Oct 2024
3:51pm, 19 Oct 2024
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Bowman 🇸🇪
Yes probably so @Velociraptor . I have also been thinking a lot this few hours and I wonder about the damn tapering too. It’s always a mess, and I never feel I benefit from it. I’ve tried 3 weeks I’ve tried 2 weeks and so on. But it never feels like it works, maranoia and taperiatis aside. Best one what when I decided to do a training one. And had 37km the week before, and a lot of miles leading up to the race, and just dialed down two days before. Maybe that works better for me. @SPR yes you are of course right. But it feels like crap, all that nice fitness feels like it’s just vanished Cheers guys, It’s nice to get some support and encouragement from fellow runners who understands the feelings involved
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Oct 2024
4:13pm, 19 Oct 2024
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FergusG
Tough day at the office Bowman, but not one for which you should be beating yourself up. Just remember - we don’t do this because it’s easy, we do this because we thought it’d be easy 😉
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Oct 2024
4:19pm, 19 Oct 2024
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Bowman 🇸🇪
Thanks @FergusG Yes something like that
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Oct 2024
5:54pm, 19 Oct 2024
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auburnette
Really sorry to hear this Bowman. My husband has got sick in the taper a few times (he's also chasing sub 3 off a pb of 3:01 - on paper he should be able to do it comfortably based on his performances at all other distances). For him the suspected culprit is nutrition - he's been steadily and unintentionally losing weight through his marathon training the last few training blocks. He's been working with a sports dietitian and she's suggested that the sickness during taper is a reaction to the stress of training dropping away. He's working to try and eat a lot more so his body doesn't seem the training stimulus/higher mileage as so stressful. Dunno if any relevance to you but worth considering. You can definitely do it on the right day. |
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Oct 2024
6:14pm, 19 Oct 2024
4,034 posts
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Bowman 🇸🇪
auburnette wrote: Really sorry to hear this Bowman. My husband has got sick in the taper a few times (he's also chasing sub 3 off a pb of 3:01 - on paper he should be able to do it comfortably based on his performances at all other distances). For him the suspected culprit is nutrition - he's been steadily and unintentionally losing weight through his marathon training the last few training blocks. He's been working with a sports dietitian and she's suggested that the sickness during taper is a reaction to the stress of training dropping away. He's working to try and eat a lot more so his body doesn't seem the training stimulus/higher mileage as so stressful. Dunno if any relevance to you but worth considering. You can definitely do it on the right day. Thanks auburnette, I don’t think have had any problems with nutrition of sorts for now, so far I believe it has been bad luck once or twice. People around have been sick a lot this autumn for instance. But if it keeps going like this, I definitely will have to take in all possibilities. But, I will sort this out. |
Oct 2024
8:45am, 20 Oct 2024
45 posts
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EdGreig
So sorry to hear that @Bowman 🇸🇪 you did really well to get to where you did and the opportunity will come. Currently in the Abingdon bag drop queue!
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Oct 2024
8:49am, 20 Oct 2024
4,035 posts
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Bowman 🇸🇪
EdGreig wrote: So sorry to hear that @Bowman 🇸🇪 you did really well to get to where you did and the opportunity will come. Currently in the Abingdon bag drop queue! Cheers mate. I wish you a really good one today, run strong and smash it! |
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Oct 2024
11:33am, 20 Oct 2024
4,036 posts
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Bowman 🇸🇪
Looks like our friend @Charlesvdw had a good one in Amsterdam. Looking forward to hear all about it mate! |
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