Hey,
Last weekend, I (male 36 yo) managed to break sub3 marathon during my 2nd marathon (first was 3:25 9 months back). I did the 18/55 pfitz plan without missing a single run, it went super well despite the summer heat.
I'm in the process of recovering now, feeling almost fine 4 days later, but I'm following the 5 weeks recovery plan from Pfitz book before jumping to another block. Time to chill a little bit.
My next objective is Paris marathon 2027 (april), but some time ago I took another bib for a marathon early jan. The initial plan was to have another try in case I missed sub3.
Now I'm sure I won't attempt to PR in this "B marathon" but I'm unsure what to do :
– DNS
– run it somewhere around 3:20, but I'm unsure how fast I can recover from this (I feel like I should be fine in 2 days, but never did a 42k training run before)
The plan is to jump to the 18/70 for Paris, so that marathon will be around 13 weeks before my main goal.
What do you think?
Source: r/Marathon_Training · by /u/papapi_7