Is this a ridiculous idea?

shotcaller

Hello,

I'm planning to run the Dublin marathon this year but don't hold out any hopes for a great time. Anything below 4:30 would be amazing. However, I was thinking, if I kept my mileage up after tapering up and next year did 3 marathons, i.e. Belfast, some European one and then Dublin again, and then repeated the cycle again for 2011, could I get below 3 hours?

Summary, can a very ordinary runner get below 3 hour mark through persistance? Or is it ridiculous?

Running Bing

shotcaller wrote: »

Hello,

I'm planning to run the Dublin marathon this year but don't hold out any hopes for a great time. Anything below 4:30 would be amazing. However, I was thinking, if I kept my mileage up after tapering up and next year did 3 marathons, i.e. Belfast, some European one and then Dublin again, and then repeated the cycle again for 2011, could I get below 3 hours?

Summary, can a very ordinary runner get below 3 hour mark through persistance? Or is it ridiculous?

There was a thread a while back asking if an ordinary runner could run a 2 hour 30 minute marathon so 3 hours is more than doable.


Its very tough, just look at some of the posters on here who are accomplished runners who put in a lot of work and still come up short, but its definitely doable if your willing to put in the work and look at it as a long term project imo.


The 3 marathons is not the way to go about it though imo. Have a crack at this one see how you get on and if your still interested then you could start thinking about more feasible plans.

shotcaller

I've already done one, though it was a long time ago. Apologies for starting another thread on the topic.

Knowing the kind of runner I am, I prob will never get below 3 hours but it'll be my target.

Cheers.

RJC

Yes it's possible - just ask TF bubendorfer (although I think he's at 3:05)