I asked an experienced runner, "whether I should do half or full marathon in the spring of 2012..."
and I was told.......
"it depends..
If you want to 'have an experience of what it would feel like' to run a marathon without much preparation, then by all means, try to run the full length, I think it is possible that you will finish it in 5 hours or so but the chance is slim.
If you want to one day really enjoy the serious challenge of the marathon, then the above is not the way to go about it.
At your age, you are face with the following:
1) If you seriously train for the marathon, you need at least 1 year of devotion (yes, the sacrifices and the required discipline is part of the challenge and reason for doing the marathon)
2) At your age, if you seriously train for the marathon for a year, you will loose some of your natural speed, that means that you will put a limit on how fast you can run, long or short, for the rest of your life because you will be converting some of your 'speed' muscle into 'endurance' muscle and the conversion is not reversible.
3) So the thing to do at your age, is to salvage as much of that natural speed you have, get them developed... as well as doing things to explore your endurance possibilities. This way, you will be able to run a good marathon in two or three years AND from that point on, you will be able to improve your marathon performance until you reach 40 or 41 years of age.
So I would say that you try to devote your time into training seriously for a good 10K performance and then enter some 10k race. With such base strength, you should be able to do either the 10K or the half come standard charter time. If this 'training for 10K' turns out to be bearable for you, and if you can devote yourself into continuing the lifestyle for another year, then you should be able to finish a marathon in 2013 as an experience... But your serious marathon should not happen until at least you are 29 years old."
----------------------- A.H.
so..... 10k it is....... let's see if there's space left.
and I was told.......
"it depends..
If you want to 'have an experience of what it would feel like' to run a marathon without much preparation, then by all means, try to run the full length, I think it is possible that you will finish it in 5 hours or so but the chance is slim.
If you want to one day really enjoy the serious challenge of the marathon, then the above is not the way to go about it.
At your age, you are face with the following:
1) If you seriously train for the marathon, you need at least 1 year of devotion (yes, the sacrifices and the required discipline is part of the challenge and reason for doing the marathon)
2) At your age, if you seriously train for the marathon for a year, you will loose some of your natural speed, that means that you will put a limit on how fast you can run, long or short, for the rest of your life because you will be converting some of your 'speed' muscle into 'endurance' muscle and the conversion is not reversible.
3) So the thing to do at your age, is to salvage as much of that natural speed you have, get them developed... as well as doing things to explore your endurance possibilities. This way, you will be able to run a good marathon in two or three years AND from that point on, you will be able to improve your marathon performance until you reach 40 or 41 years of age.
So I would say that you try to devote your time into training seriously for a good 10K performance and then enter some 10k race. With such base strength, you should be able to do either the 10K or the half come standard charter time. If this 'training for 10K' turns out to be bearable for you, and if you can devote yourself into continuing the lifestyle for another year, then you should be able to finish a marathon in 2013 as an experience... But your serious marathon should not happen until at least you are 29 years old."
----------------------- A.H.
so..... 10k it is....... let's see if there's space left.
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