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The goal is to run 10 800's at your goal marathon time. This is a little unclear. What it sounds like is you can run 10 800s at your marathon goal pace. What you mean is that you can run 10 800s in the amout of minutes and seconds that you plan to run your marathon in in hours and minutes.
You nailed it. I had left out of my description that the minutes and seconds it takes you to run one 800 meter repeat is converted to hours and minutes.
eg. 800 in 3 minutes 10 seconds is supposed to predict marathon in 3 hours 10 minutes. (If you can hold that pace for 10 sets).
There is also a fudge number of minutes you are supposed to add for IM, but I don't remember it.