NUFCrichard wrote:
A 3:15 marathon is pedestrian, for someone who can easily run faster! For you it will be a 100% effort (maybe more!), don't downplay it, it will be tough. I have the feeling you underestimate how much toll it all takes on your body, I can't really understand how you walked 12 miles of an IM marathon, but it wasn't too hard! The reason people start walking is because the can no longer physically run, which isn't a 'normal' state of affairs!
Good luck with the marathon, I think that if you trained properly for a marathon i.e. >70 mile weeks, actual long runs + 16 week build up, you would most probably break 3, but for the training you are doing, you are doing good times.
i walked 12 miles because i knew any chances of a high placement/kq was out of the picture. so there was no point running hard in 97 degree weather, knowing that i had vegas marathon (the one this thread is about) coming up. it was more mental than anything.
hope that helps answer it.
i know the marathon will be tough. 3:15 will be my reach goal. realistically, i see myself being in the 3:20-3:30 region. if i can do that and not totally destroy myself, that's a victory in itself.