i think she’ll achieve it at some point as well, really keen to see if it’s the one next week!
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i think she’ll achieve it at some point as well, really keen to see if it’s the one next week!
She’s already back running faster intervals! I ran on Sunday (quicker than Lucy 
) and I’ve not run at all yet. Not saying that my way is right but my body is def saying hang on a bit… so I’d be surprised if hers was genuinely feeling like running sub 4min kms!!
) and I’ve not run at all yet. Not saying that my way is right but my body is def saying hang on a bit… so I’d be surprised if hers was genuinely feeling like running sub 4min kms!!I get the hybrid thing though, if you're training for marathons you have to dedicate a lot of time to running and you get pretty fatigued/need recovery which does not lend itself well to doing strength training.
Also running sub 3 for a woman is a very different feat to running sub 3 as a guy, her goals 3:11 etc. might seem odd but she's at the point where running faster means slight improvements i.e. 10-15 seconds/mile. Generally from you know training how much time you can reasonably run splits so you try to set reasonable goals you can be happy with. A goal of 3:11 was 4 min better than her prior time I believe, which would be about 10 seconds per mile faster.
Also running sub 3 for a woman is a very different feat to running sub 3 as a guy, her goals 3:11 etc. might seem odd but she's at the point where running faster means slight improvements i.e. 10-15 seconds/mile. Generally from you know training how much time you can reasonably run splits so you try to set reasonable goals you can be happy with. A goal of 3:11 was 4 min better than her prior time I believe, which would be about 10 seconds per mile faster.
yes and I don’t think she’s trained at fast enough paces to run sub 3 yet. She’s need to run about 14 secs per mile faster to get a sub 3 from where she is now. And that is not easy over 26 miles!!
I’m a woman and much less go under 3 hours than men, it’s quite a big difference. I’ve placed around 60th female at London before, and in the same race when my male friends ran 5 mins quicker than me, they were like 1500th male or something.
I’m a woman and much less go under 3 hours than men, it’s quite a big difference. I’ve placed around 60th female at London before, and in the same race when my male friends ran 5 mins quicker than me, they were like 1500th male or something.
That's amazing and so fast, truly in awe
. I could go on with a huge list of my pet peeves but most of them relate to the ignorance about womens/mens athletics 'women run slower because they're less competitive' (duck off), 'that's not that fast, I can faster than that' (a guy having no clue that a guy running a fast km is not the same as a woman running that speed for long distance). I once had to do a mile for time for an unrelated sport which requires good cardio (for US college team), I got placed in the section with all guys (about 20) and of course all the men started sprinting and gassed after 400m, as I'm running I start picking off the guys and some unathletic guy has the audacity to patronize me with 'good job, keep it up!'. When I got to the end some guy asked me 'what time did you get?' me: '6 min' him: 'that's not possible, that would place you as a top female track athlete in the state, you must have miscounted a lap' (my time was measured by the coaches too). That still irks me massively because it's completely untrue. I reckon womens sub-3 is equiv to men's 2:35? and men's sub-3 womens 3:35 (just going by Boston qualifying times).
Thank you! That bloke sounds like a dick! Some of my male club runners moan “how easy” championship entry and GFA is for womenThat's amazing and so fast, truly in awe
I reckon womens sub-3 is equiv to men's 2:35? and men's sub-3 womens 3:35 (just going by Boston qualifying times).
Sorry, mate - you have to get proportionally as fast as me to get in the champs
Men’s is sub 2:40 and women’s sub 3:14. And you do have to look at the elites. Women about 12-15 mins slower than men at the top end.
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