Please shoot me if I'm mad

gerire

Ok; I will not get too much into my personal fitness history but I am very comfortable after 3 weeks training to do a 10k in 44;
I play hurling and am not used to overly long distance running ie before today it would have been a 5 mile training session was my longest; Now I know I am well capable of 8-10 miles in my current state;

Here comes the Guns

At 27 and fit is it possible to raise my endurance by 5 mile per week to bee able to compete on bank holiday monday marathon OR is it a bridge too far too soon;

BossArky

*bang*

SUNGOD

gerire wrote: »

Ok; I will not get too much into my personal fitness history but I am very comfortable after 3 weeks training to do a 10k in 44;
I play hurling and am not used to overly long distance running ie before today it would have been a 5 mile training session was my longest; Now I know I am well capable of 8-10 miles in my current state;

Here comes the Guns

At 27 and fit is it possible to raise my endurance by 5 mile per week to bee able to compete on bank holiday monday marathon OR is it a bridge too far too soon;

thats just a nice way of saying can i train for and run a marathon in a month.
maybe you could but the pain and suffering you would expierence afterwards would in no way be worth it and would ruin any and all of your marathon expierence

Roper

More info. You can do 8-10 right now? A lad I know is in training for it and I *think* is doing two 12ks this week so that would make you not too far off course. But it's what's gone before that's the problem. What have you been doing up to now?

Ultimately man, you could do the marathon with no training but a few walks, a lot of people do. You could post a time of 6 hours and say woohoo I did it but really why would you be doing it? It's a challenge right? Well surely the challenge is training for it, building up to it and then running your best time?

Orobhsa

The closing date is next Monday.

Just because you think you are capable of 8 / 10 miles means little. Try running it and see how you react.

Why do you want to do this? If it's just to get a t-shirt sure go ahead but you can't expect to run or jog this distance. You could do yourself long term injury even trying.

fatmammycat

No shooting, but I'm in training for the DCM, OP, it's my second one and my honest opinion is that you have left it too late to compete this year and pushing yourself to do so could result in a pretty nasty old injury.
It's not a month away you see, not in terms of training, it's really only two/three weeks as you will need to taper towards the end then rest and carb load to create and build energy in your muscles. Also, 8/10 miles is VERY different to 26.2 miles. The long run most marathon runners do a few weeks before the marathon can be 18 to 22 miles. And they would have training for weeks and weeks to do that comfortably. Plus it's very much about 'time spent on feet' if that makes any sense. For example, I will have run 10k 15k 18k this week with my long run on the weekend.
You sound very fit and well done to you, but if you keep that up and extend your times gradually you could run next year's marathon and really enjoy the experience-safely and well prepared.

shels4ever

gerire wrote: »

Ok; I will not get too much into my personal fitness history but I am very comfortable after 3 weeks training to do a 10k in 44;
I play hurling and am not used to overly long distance running ie before today it would have been a 5 mile training session was my longest; Now I know I am well capable of 8-10 miles in my current state;

Here comes the Guns

At 27 and fit is it possible to raise my endurance by 5 mile per week to bee able to compete on bank holiday monday marathon OR is it a bridge too far too soon;

Well i was 22 running 40 miles a week and it took me 6 months of training to get around the marathon..

If your questions is would you finish , well yes you prob would.. is it safe prob not, you would risk injury and been wrecked for week after.. you would prob suffer a lag after that would cause problems for your hurling too.

The training for the marathon builds you up to complete the race and helps your recovery.. there are people out there that could do a marathon with no training ( jsut get around) but you will find that it does cause problems after, the body jsut isnt used to it, and hasnt had time to prepare .. ie gylcogen level etc.

I for one think the marathon is taken a bit too lightly and almost ever marathon you hear of people been taken away to hosp etc..

At your current level of fittness I think you would be capable of running a very good marathon IF you trained for it.

smashey

gerire,

Do you want me to move this to the marathon forum?

hunnymonster

SUNGOD wrote: »

thats just a nice way of saying can i train for and run a marathon in a month.
maybe you could but the pain and suffering you would expierence afterwards would in no way be worth it and would ruin any and all of your marathon expierence

+1

it's a cliche but the marathon is a race of two halves. The first half is a warm up of 20 miles which is followed by a 10km race. I'm the last person to say you should limit yourself but 3 1/2 weeks is a big ask both in terms of enjoyment of the day and the very high risk of injury.

blazingsaddles

asking a bit much there, recipe for disaster and injury which could put you back a year. Why not train for a foreign marathon or i think there is a connemara one in March or April which would be ideal for you

gerire

smashey wrote: »

gerire,

Do you want me to move this to the marathon forum?

Nah thanks for the offer tho;
I have decided not to go for this;
Had a long chat with one of the instructors in college here today, ex international runner, and along with him and the comments from ye guys the risk is far too much; We wer egetting a good incentive from college to do it but the risk is too great; Just going to keep at shorter, <20k, runs over the winter, get times respectable and take it from there.

Thanks for all your posts lads

eroo

gerire wrote: »

Nah thanks for the offer tho;
I have decided not to go for this;
Had a long chat with one of the instructors in college here today, ex international runner, and along with him and the comments from ye guys the risk is far too much; We wer egetting a good incentive from college to do it but the risk is too great; Just going to keep at shorter, <20k, runs over the winter, get times respectable and take it from there.

Thanks for all your posts lads

I got runner's knee before, due to over training, it was nasty.:( Your better off not pushing it mate!

hunnymonster

eroo, Can I ask what the incentive from the College was?

shels4ever

eroo wrote: »

I got runner's knee before, due to over training, it was nasty.:( Your better off not pushing it mate!

Wow do they want you to do it with little training, thats not very responsible of them.. jsut like the adds you here in september trying to get yo uto do the marathon..