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This may seem like a weird subject (to start looking at goal completion time) when I have just admitted that I have a long way to go before I can even contemplate completing the race. Well I thought that I’d try and break it down to something which sounded manageable… This way I have an idea in my head what I am trying to achieve.
Well I think if I stick to a achievable goals then I’ll find it easier to train for this monster. If I can manage to run for 6 minutes of every 10, and then walk the other 4 I could still finish within 5 hours.
Pace
Now some people will look at this and say “That sounds easy I could do that”. Well I don’t think it is that easy, in fact the average marathon finish time is somewhere near 4:30 for Men and 5:10 for Women…. So this wouldn’t be far from a top half finish! And if it was that easy then everyone would be doing it.
But this gives good hope that if I can manage to extend my “Long Run” every week by Run/Walk combo then I have half a chance of doing this. And don’t worry about me being taken in by the “Won’t Walk” snobbery…. I plan to finish walking, crawling or even rolling if I have to.
I am a 35 year old male who has always had a passing interets in health, fitness and sport. I’ve regularly worked out but I wouldn’t call myself fit… That’s because I am like most gym goers - Lazy!
I recently (3 months ago) signed up for a marathon thinking that 5 months was enough time to get myself in shape. This is how those 3 months have passed -
Early training efforts, Injured, Rest, Train, Injured, Rest, Train, Injured, Rest, Rest, Illness… And Now I’m here 10 weeks out from race day with no aerobic base, no strength and most people would say no hope.
So what do I do? Give up? Not in a million years. Here is where it starts and I plan to do what 100 out of 100 fitness experts say is impossible - Train for my first Marathon with absolutely no aerobic base in 10 Weeks.
How am I going to go about it? Well continue to follow my progress to find out. But I plan to do very little running (maybe 2 runs a week) and plenty of strength, core and cross training to keep me free from injury.
