Re: Any marathon runners on here?
In addition to your normal training, you need to start doing one serious long run per week. You should try to work up to at least 18 miles. It will be very difficult to finish the marathon without walking a good deal of it if you havent done at least one 18+ mile run.
You want to leave around 2 weeks between your farthest long run and race day, so obviously you're cutting it a bit close here.
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I probably only run 3-4 times a week, usually 4-6 mile runs. I'm at the point where these runs are pretty easy and I really try to step up the pace on them.
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Don't worry about stepping up the pace on your normal runs, you should be more concerned about stepping up the milage. For marathon training, quantity over quality.
If you decide to do the marathon, buy Power Gel, and take it twice during the race.
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