Comments on: The Marathon Man

By: The Training Begins | the terryland blog

The Training Begins | the terryland blog — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:55:21 +0000

[...] Not only do I have to raise a load of money for Mind, but I also have to beat my current super record of 2.54 miles ran in one go in 24min 15.289sec back in April. [...]

By: terrysaunders

terrysaunders — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:09:22 +0000

Yeh, I’m going to have to look into the longer stuff properly – I worked out that my pace today, if extrapolated to 26 miles, wasn’t dar off the world record. Can’t be that easy

By: Igg

Igg — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:09:43 +0000

You might be running too fast. Which sounds really stupid, but when you’re starting off running really long distances you have to start with a really, really slow pace. It can be pretty hard because it doesn’t feel like running, especially when you’re used to covering shorter distances faster. You want to aim for an even pace over the distance you’re covering, rather than running say 3 miles and doing the first in say 8 minutes and the other two in double that each

I think the marathon website helps you plan training week by week according to fitness levels etc., which is probably worth a look. Good luck!

By: Rami El-Dahshan

Rami El-Dahshan — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:40:16 +0000

Great post Terry!

I’m a fatty who’s currently running round Regent’s park on my lunchtimes listening to your F1 podcast… keep up the good work on the run, the F1 and the marathon most importantly!

Planning on doing the marathon myself so I’ll be checking up on you and your progress!

Rami