The sub 3.30 marathon thread
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Dec 2024
7:51am, 18 Dec 2024
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Mark Jingle All The Way, J 🇳🇿
Welcome along @Big_G. You're very welcome to lurk and post at will no matter where you are at. And if we can help in anyway just ask. Like you, I find that as long as I remain consistent, every now and again I get an unexpected boost in pace at the same HR. Now I'm scared to stop just in case I lose it 😂
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Dec 2024
9:26am, 18 Dec 2024
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xt350 🇳🇿
I also lurk on this thread...
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Dec 2024
9:46am, 18 Dec 2024
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Mark Jingle All The Way, J 🇳🇿
Then welcome along too @xt350 🇳🇿
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Dec 2024
9:48am, 18 Dec 2024
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Mark Jingle All The Way, J 🇳🇿
Are you still in Timmy-Vegas @xt350 🇳🇿
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Dec 2024
10:47pm, 18 Dec 2024
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riggys99
Hello @Big_G and @xt350 🇳🇿 @Mark J 🇳🇿 can you take my name of the sidebar please. Not making any marathon plans till finished treatment and back to a reasonable training volume with no issues |
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Dec 2024
12:18pm, 19 Dec 2024
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xt350 🇳🇿
Mark J 🇳🇿 wrote: Are you still in Timmy-Vegas @xt350 🇳🇿 Sure am.. probably the most boring big town in New Zealand.. coming up your way for the air show at Easter |
Dec 2024
1:35pm, 19 Dec 2024
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auburnette
Sorry to hear @riggys99 but best not to have any pressure to build back too quickly. Fingers crossed it starts improving soon. Hello to Big G and xt350! Some amazing performances from you recently @Mark J 🇳🇿 , those times and WAVAs are no joke! I have a vague goal to get to 80% WAVA but I'm quite a way off it at the moment. |
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Dec 2024
8:12pm, 19 Dec 2024
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Mark Jingle All The Way, J 🇳🇿
Cheers @auburnette definitely my most successful year of running ever. Not sure I can top much of it to be honest.
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Dec 2024
8:21pm, 19 Dec 2024
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Charlesvdw
@Big_G running easy all the time and still getting faster is nothing new. Ask Maffetone.
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Dec 2024
8:38pm, 19 Dec 2024
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Big_G
Charles, yeah, I know - definitely nothing new. All the current trends of Zone 2, threshold etc has been done many years ago. Just saying it’s what worked for me. Over Covid, from around May 2020, I switched to low HR and together with no races to disrupt training, I was able to get PBs late 2021 and early 2022. It just took quite a long time to see the gains and I nearly threw the towel in with it, but I’m glad I preserved, and due to the covid pause it was something that kept me occupied. I’ve been running about 20 years, and wish I’d switched to it before. I did do a small number of sessions in the lead up to Seville 2022 - I remember doing something like 14 miles with 8 at MP, and that 8 ended up being my average MP at the race, although at the time I thought I’d done the session marginally too quick. But I also did 4 marathons across the Xmas and New Year 2021 period…so I don’t really follow a plan as such! Anyway, over in Netherlands now for Xmas, travelling yesterday from Devon, via Harwich, night ferry to Hook of Holland, and this morning over to Zwolle. A couple of parkruns planned but also plenty of flat routes around here, to hopefully keep the mileage ticking over. |
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