So according to Bart Yasso there is a sure-fire way to predict your marathon time, to check out the theory not in my words have a look here!
In summary the session consists of 8 x 800m and the average time to run the 800m's in minutes/seconds is a good predictor of what you are capable of in a marathon in hours/minutes. Clear as mud? Then I shall continue - although I am sure there is a lot more too it and must be part of marathon training, wouldn't work for average sedentary 'man on the street'!
So going for a 4hour marathon I needed to run my 800m reps in approx 4mins, translating to 8min/mile pace. I set off and I was a little quicker but fairly comfortable for the first 3-4 reps. My legs started to feel the burn during the 5th rep but soon subsided again, I considered dropping out after the 6th but after seeing my rep splits were still good and fairly consistent I kept going.
Overall my average rep was 3min49seconds so maybe a sub-4 marathon isn't out of the question, fingers crossed for a cool, dry day on the 22nd April!
In summary the session consists of 8 x 800m and the average time to run the 800m's in minutes/seconds is a good predictor of what you are capable of in a marathon in hours/minutes. Clear as mud? Then I shall continue - although I am sure there is a lot more too it and must be part of marathon training, wouldn't work for average sedentary 'man on the street'!
So going for a 4hour marathon I needed to run my 800m reps in approx 4mins, translating to 8min/mile pace. I set off and I was a little quicker but fairly comfortable for the first 3-4 reps. My legs started to feel the burn during the 5th rep but soon subsided again, I considered dropping out after the 6th but after seeing my rep splits were still good and fairly consistent I kept going.
Overall my average rep was 3min49seconds so maybe a sub-4 marathon isn't out of the question, fingers crossed for a cool, dry day on the 22nd April!
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