personal best

booboo31

hi all,i broke my personal best time this weekend down in tralee by 16 minutes.tralee was a testing course with a lot of testing hills on it.i would like to get opinions on people that run flat courses what could i realistically expect to achieve after my achievement on a tough course in tralee.thank you

village runner

booboo31 wrote: »

hi all,i broke my personal best time this weekend down in tralee by 16 minutes.tralee was a testing course with a lot of testing hills on it.i would like to get opinions on people that run flat courses what could i realistically expect to achieve after my achievement on a tough course in tralee.thank you

If you posted a time and what distance you ran it might help....

booboo31

village runner wrote: »

If you posted a time and what distance you ran it might help....

sorry how stupid of me...full marathon....3.38

ger664

I would think 5-6 minutes is attainable on a flatter course, but a lot of this would be offset by whether conditions which where near perfect on Saturday.

booboo31

ger664 wrote: »

I would think 5-6 minutes is attainable on a flatter course, but a lot of this would be offset by whether conditions which where near perfect on Saturday.

thanx ger...what advice would you give me to achieve it...to get the time in early or to try and have a consistent steady mile pace....or other...?...thanx

plumber77

Evenly paced as possible. Getting the time in early is not a great strategy.You'll lose whatever time you've "banked" in the early sections and probably more.

booboo31

plumber77 wrote: »

Evenly paced as possible. Getting the time in early is not a great strategy.You'll lose whatever time you've "banked" in the early sections and probably more.

cheers ....wud you advice me to go with the 3.30 pacers or would i need to take a slightly handier pace than that...?

ger664

booboo31 wrote: »

cheers ....wud you advice me to go with the 3.30 pacers or would i need to take a slightly handier pace than that...?

What race are you planning to go with 3:30 pacers ??

plumber77

Hard to advise without knowing your ability. But if your goal was to break 3.30 lets say, then going with the 3.30 pacer will take the guess work out of it.Following a specific marathon plan based on a 3.30 target will also help you in that regard and give you an idea of the paces you'll be expected to run.Sounds like you are improving and you should learn alot from last saturday.It was some day for it and thats a huge plus on marathon day.

booboo31

ger664 wrote: »

What race are you planning to go with 3:30 pacers ??

thinking about limerick...

ger664

booboo31 wrote: »

thinking about limerick...

Limerick is probably too soon to make the gain required (10-15 secs/mile). You will need 3 weeks to recover fully from Tralee and that only leaves 2 weeks to Limerick. You are not going to get anything done to improve to 3:30 Pace other then possible losing 5-7 lbs but that may hinder your recovery/taper or you may already be at your racing weight.

Cork or Portumna in June may be better options, cork will have pacers but portumna wont but gives you another 2 weeks training over Cork.

booboo31

thanx everyone for great advice...much appreciated...:)