Hello there,
getting a bit forgetful and I wonder if anyone can help me. I vaguely remember something about speedwork in marathon training, and that a good session would be to do 800 metre reps at the time one wants to do the marathon in (e.g. in 3:30 mins if aiming for 3 hours 30). I also remember that you can do that session to predict your marathon time. Now... I've just done a speed session of 7*800 on 4 mins, holding about 3:10 - which was hard, but not too painful. Somehow I can't see myself doing a 3:10 for a marathon, nice though it would be - 5 weeks to go... But - does that mean I went too fast to make it the appropriate session? Am I fitter than I thought I am? Is the whole 800m transform into marathon time thing a very rough approximation and not to be taken too seriously? Any thoughts would be appreciated...
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We all know that's not true (hopefully I'm running more than twice that on Sunday).
Ursula, you also need to put in the distance training as well-its not implying you can train for a marathon just by running 10 x 800.