Running A Full Marathon with No Training
Running A Full Marathon with No Training
Am wondering if it's possible to do so as a recreational runner with no prior distance training. Say you want to clock 5 hours; that means each hour you'll need to cover 8km or so, which means 2km every 15 minutes. How achievable would it be?
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Re: Running A Full Marathon with No Training
Not possible. (for me)
I'm quite a good runner, clocking 1:58 for 21km.
I definitely cannot go beyond 22km even though i have so many ET run during sispec days.
Are you doing?
I'm quite a good runner, clocking 1:58 for 21km.
I definitely cannot go beyond 22km even though i have so many ET run during sispec days.
Are you doing?
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Re: Running A Full Marathon with No Training
I heard there was a kber who did a marathon without running training. You can google it.
Re: Running A Full Marathon with No Training
if my colleague bets a $1,000.lips wrote:Not possible. (for me)
I'm quite a good runner, clocking 1:58 for 21km.
I definitely cannot go beyond 22km even though i have so many ET run during sispec days.
Are you doing?
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Re: Running A Full Marathon with No Training
5 hours? That's slightly faster than walking pace (say 6km/h), so yes, achievable.
Would you accomplish this comfortably? No.
No matter how fit you are, if you are doing an unfamiliar movement for an extended period of time, you will be sore.
Would you accomplish this comfortably? No.
No matter how fit you are, if you are doing an unfamiliar movement for an extended period of time, you will be sore.
Re: Running A Full Marathon with No Training
is 5hrs the time to beat? or you just need to finish a marathon with no training?
if it's just finishing, unfit people do it all the time.
if it's just finishing, unfit people do it all the time.
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h wrote: if it's just finishing, unfit people do it all the time.
Re: Running A Full Marathon with No Training
sounds like what i'm gonna be doing.
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Honestly, with training, I did 4h23min. That was my best effort. Measure from there.
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Re: Running A Full Marathon with No Training
you suck!Sufian wrote:Honestly, with training, I did 4h23min. That was my best effort. Measure from there.
Re: Running A Full Marathon with No Training
There's a big, thick line that can be drawn between the 1:30-2hour mark, and beyond. Most people would be able to comfortably run up to that mark (with varying degrees of competency), but past that you do need a strong LSD base and efficient running stride, otherwise muscular fatigue and soreness takes over; remember that even established marathoners say running a 10km/21km is completely different to running a marathon.galapogos wrote:you suck!Sufian wrote:Honestly, with training, I did 4h23min. That was my best effort. Measure from there.
Nobody ever said a marathon was supposed to be comfortable
But let's break it down; say you can run 10mins at 12km/h pace, then walk 4km/h for 20mins; that gets you 3km+1.3km=4.3km/30mins=>8.6km/h. If you can do that 10 times, that gets you 43km in 5 hours.
If you walk 5km/h, then the equation becomes 3km+1.66km=4.66km/30mins=9.32km/h, so you only need to do that ~9 times to get to 42km => 4.5hour marathon.
You can break it down however you like, e.g. run 5mins@10k/h, walk 3mins@5k/h etc. But if you break the overall large goal of 42km into sections, you can see that it's "easily" doable, albeit not comfortable if you have never walked/run more than 2 hours before.
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