90% of people undertrain for the Marathon, and that’s very reflective in their finishing times. Running a 4:30 (obviously there are some age/sex/situational nuances there, but on average) simply means you didn’t put in the work.
Long run should cap out at about 20-22 miles but let’s use 18 as a bare minimum.
Long runs should also only be about 30-35% of your weekly mileage but for Marathon training you can probably push it to about 40% for a couple weeks.
That means bare minimum marathon training involves getting up to 45 miles a week (18 / 0.4). and I really stress minimum here. If you want to enjoy your day it should really be at least 60.
Yeah that’s definitely unpopular in this sub so upvote for contributing to the topic. But lots of people run marathons just for the accomplishment, not to necessarily have the fastest time they could train for.
Also, running 45 miles a week is a huge time suck. Not everyone has that much free time
90% of people undertrain for the Marathon, and that’s very reflective in their finishing times. Running a 4:30 (obviously there are some age/sex/situational nuances there, but on average) simply means you didn’t put in the work.
Long run should cap out at about 20-22 miles but let’s use 18 as a bare minimum.
Long runs should also only be about 30-35% of your weekly mileage but for Marathon training you can probably push it to about 40% for a couple weeks.
That means bare minimum marathon training involves getting up to 45 miles a week (18 / 0.4). and I really stress minimum here. If you want to enjoy your day it should really be at least 60.
https://www.runnersworld.com/training/a20807557/runners-with-more-training-miles-finish-marathons-faster/
Simply running the bare minimum safe mileage to train for a marathon gets an average finish time of 3:50.
Yeah that’s definitely unpopular in this sub so upvote for contributing to the topic. But lots of people run marathons just for the accomplishment, not to necessarily have the fastest time they could train for.
Also, running 45 miles a week is a huge time suck. Not everyone has that much free time