Hi everyone. Quick question for all you hardened marathoners out there.
I'm running my first ever marathon in two weeks, and I'm just wondering what sort of a time I should be aiming at. I ran a half-marathon last month in 1:38, but I would guess that I need to double that and then add a bit to get a predicted time for the full. I've used some web based calculators and they estimate my time as between 3:25 and 3:35, but that sounds faster than I was originally aiming for (3:40 or thereabouts). Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Dave.
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I'm told it's your half marathon time plus 20 mins but I suppose tha'ts only a rough guide. Good luck anyway, my first marathon is in 3 weeks
Hope this helps.
DW
From my extensive experience (one of each), and taking every possible variable into account, I have calculated that the marathon is 92,543.59 times as hard as the half-marathon.
Good luck for three week's time Bobolink - let us know how you get on.
Cheers,
Dave.
Having run my first marathon one week ago I may be qualified to comment. My advice?.......ignore the calculators and be very cautious on your first one otherwise it can hurt a lot.
I ran 3:40 and had run a half marathon about a month before in 1:31, I had also just run a 10k in just outside 39.
My advice for the first would be to go off very steady, take it really easy to halfway and then if you feel ok, speed up in the second half.
I wish you the best of luck - which one are you running?
Agree with Dog Walker - and MartinH (how are you Martin by the way after your race last week) - be guided by your long run and start steadily and see how you feel.
There's quite a crowd of us going to Dublin for this one - we're planning to meet beforehand if possible (seem to have landed myself with the job of co-ordinating this) and certainly at 8pm in the Temple Bar two weeks tonight for a wind down.
We've got a thread going in the Unofficial Forum Running Club forum - have a look and join in. Apart from meeting up before/after some of us are planning to start together as we all want to set off at about the same pace. We're looking at approx 8.10/mile, which is 3.35 pace. Once we've got going inevitably the group will start to split up as we each settle into our own rhythms, but you're more than welcome to join us. On the other hand, if you prefer to do your own thing, that's fine too!
Get over to the thread and have a look - see what you think!
Bobolink - best of luck to you too - where are you running?
V-rap - astonishing - my calculations came up with precisely the same figure as yours!
Half marathons don't even register on the same scale as full marathons, it's like going from climbing Ben Nevis to Everest !
Off a 1.38 half M time earlier this year I ran 3.31 at London (chuffed to bits as was hoping for around 3.37)
Usually HalfM time times 2 plus 15-20 is about right. I think the trick is getting comfortably to halfway (say in 1.50), banging out the 'dull' miles 13-20 , and leaving enough in the tank for the last 10k.
Easier said than done!
Good luck to all of you doing dublin and post how you get on.
Half Marathon ... very buggered,
Marathon .. ever-so, ever-so buggered.
Don't know how it works, I'm no scientist, but it's spooky 'cos it was exactly right for me !
I'm still hooked, though, after three marathons and London will be no. 4 :-)
Strange as after each one the words "never again" seemed to be what I babbled most but a butty and pint later I'm filling in those entry forms and planning long training runs.
We must all be weird !!!
Good luck for the 26.2 !!!
That's my story. The story for everyone can be observed at the end of the two distances: in the finishing area after a half everyone is smiling, chatty, socialble, looking for people they know, rushing back and forth to get their kit, generally elated. After a marathon everyone is very quiet. There are tears. There is quite satisfaction. People are often still buried deep within themselves.
Nuff said.
Jonathan
Hang on, that's the same as if you were accelerating, approaching the speed of light!
Marathons: the ultimate proof of the Theory of Special Relativity?
(Or, does Jonathan run REALLY, REALLY FAST?)
But I m doing another
yes, in my dreams I run really, really fast. And at the end of a marathon the world has only aged about four hours, but I have aged billions of years. Actually that's the reverse of Einstein, but marathoning is something special, after all.
Dear Benz,
yes, tears - but I meant tears brought on by the overwhelming emotion of having achieved something truly great - and having achieved it solely by oneself for oneself.
Keep running - and keep smiling through the tears! I've realized that it's the chase for that overwhelming feeling that encourages me to enter race after race ...
Jonathan
thats why i didnt get sposored for my first, it wasnt for anyone except me
Roll on the next one, i shant have any toenails left
How?
Can I buy their book/schedule anywhere
Cos Im sick of heckiling and rain
To train for the marathon on a treadmill would be the most boring thing ever.
What makes you want to run 18 miles + indoors, going nowhere?
I suggest you saddle-up and get to them hills.