I'm in an ok shape. Can I run a marathon in 6 months with 3 days a week training...

worked for me but whatever you say

You should not be going for a marathon in such short time.

it's still a measure of fitness so it's not a bad indicator

You can run a marathon tomorrow if you wanted to but it would just take ages, what time you looking for? Sub 4 hours?

No idea, along with the main group I guess.
I don't know what realistic goals are, just searching for a goal, something to look forward to while training.

Yeah you need to take things really slow then. Being healthy will mean your body/muscles recover and grow stronger more quickly which helps a lot though.

Worst thing is to get injured and lose weeks or even months of progress.

Usain Bolt can run 100m under 10 seconds and he struggled to finish a 5k race. There are people who can run ultra marathons at a 7:00 pace but can't run 5k in under 25 minutes.

i know i'm saying that for the average person it's not a bad rule of thumb - someone who can run 5k at a decent pace is much more likely to have the base fitness required to step to a longer distance than someone who can't.

Oh okay, so you're admitting I'm right and you're wrong, sure. Let's move on.

Anybody can finish a marathon at any time

OP I'd use the couch to 5k program. Once you can run 5k without stopping then work on your time. Both are pretty standard goals across the board for any novice runner. Worry about a 10k or marathons later.

I can do 5k on a crosstrainer pretty easily, trying it on a "real" surface in a few days. Thanks!

you sound like a faggot

Alright man, good luck on your journey

Thanks guys, OP out!

You probably could have googled this

>6 months to train
No shit you can do it. 6 months. 24 weeks. So much time. Are you planning on doing Amsterdam? I am doing it myself.

You cant just train really hard and suddenly be in shape. There is a limit to how fast you can improve. Your muscles need to build up the fitness and your cardio needs to develop. If you exceed your limits, you will just fatigue and injure yourself.

Read up on heart rate training. Most of your training should be at a "conversational pace" meaning if you're running next to a partner you should be able to carry out a conversation without being short on breath. If you do get winded, you're doing too much of an anaerobic workout.

Having said that, 6 months is 24 weeks. You could increase your long run mileage 1 mile a week probably if you are in your early 20s and be set. You neee to be training 5 days a week and doing at least 15 miles per week to start out. Give it a try and see how you feel. Pay attention to what your body tells you

>Tfw 4km in 12 minutes

Am I fit?

>4km in 12 minutes
No you fucking can't

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I can. Been able to run it since I was in high school and still can.

No, you can't.

If you could then you wouldn't need to ask if you were fit. I would be almost certain you couldn't run 1km at that pace.

That's super hard to believe. That'd be what, a sub 14 minute 5k? The world record is like 13 mins kek

>That'd be what, a sub 14 minute 5k?
Jesus mate it's literally simple math they teach 10 year olds

Math is for fags, don't @ me ever again.

kek how the fuck did you get that? it's 3 mins per km - so 5k would be 15mins, plus you'd add a bit of time since you'd have to adjust your pace for the extra distance
still suspiciously fast though

I can run 4k in 12 mins but I'm exhausted afterwards. If I run at 10km/h though I can run for an hour without any problem.
I can and did recently.

I definitely cannot run 5km in 20 min and I'm not even bothered to try
But I can probably run a marathon in a month if I want to

No, you didn't.

I did

Bro are you black? How tall are you? I've seen 17/18 minute 5ks personally but these dudes were lanky af.

Why 4km? What times do you do for other distances? What training do you do? You're a filthy liar that's what you are

Surprised you know how solve captchas. Damn you're stupid.

No idea why you guys give the superman this much attention. Shows your own weakness desu

>4km in 12 minutes
>10km in 60 minutes
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I'm 6"0 and part Spanish. Always been great at long distance running but horrible at sprints.
Used to have to run in high school a lot in gym class and had this coopertest thing which is running for 12 minutes and seeing how far you can get. I got 4km then and have been maintaining it ever since. Don't do much more than playing football on Saturday and training on Tuesday nights. I bike 10km every day but I doubt it's anything special

Well if you're not lying you're pretty fucking fast m8, at least for mid distance. Do you do any long distance running?

When I'm on the beach in the summer with friends or family I run, well mainly jog for fun. 10km both ways so 20km in total. Takes me about 2 hours to do that in a comfortable pace on hard sand that is nice to walk and run on without your feet sinking in

Damn that's wild, my best ever was like 50 minutes for a 10k and I was absolutely destroyed by the end. I can't imagine keeping around the same pace for 2 hours

>Pace is unrelated to being able to run distances.
imagine a person taking five hours to run 5k. you're saying that would be absolutely no indication that they would struggle to run 10k?

>Usain Bolt
notice how you have to go to the most extreme outside example to make your point. yes, we know that sprinters do not excel at long distance, thank you

>There are people who can run ultra marathons at a 7:00 pace but can't run 5k in under 25 minutes.
you're desperately trying to drop knowledge but you just don't know that much about running. totally irrelevant point in any case

If you ran 4km in 12 minutes in highschool you would be one the best youth runners in europe. If you did it without any proper training then you should be a professional runner. But you didn't do it.

>gngn u use extrims
>if someone took 5 hours to run 5km
Too much processed sugar in your brain mate

I don't like running as a sport, I like running in my own time and in football games it comes in handy, but that doesn't take away that after a sprint of 100m I'm not somewhat exhausted. Long distances are more fun and easier imo.
50 minutes for 10k is pretty fucking good though. Just find the pace you can run with for an insane amount of time while still being comfortable and not getting exhausted.

I think I'm just gonna stop at 10k lol, at least for a while. Do you think the running on sand helped you out with your speed or endurance? Or is it purely for comfort?

I don't you realize how fast 4km in 12 minutes is. 10 laps of a track in 72 seconds per lap. Try two laps in 72 seconds and see how you get on.

Why are you so caught up in debunking this dude lol

It's mainly because I'm just on the beach anyway andd get bored easily. Running takes my mind off of things and is a nice way of exercise with the beach breeze, also seeing some cute dogs is always fun.
Hard sand almost feels the same as a normal path but now you run on bare feet and its actually doable and not as uncomfortable as you might think
Yes I know it's 20kmh on average for 12 minutes. It's not a constant speed, at the end my lap times obviously degrade and become slower but in average yeah about 20kmh. I don't think it's that fast but I was surprised people who were competing in national tournaments didn't manage to get above 3k in 12 minutes at the time

The first time I ran above 3k I was about 13 or 14 from what I can remember. Used to love running in gym class

Because I know about running and this guy is just making shit up. Am I fit he asks them pretends he runs top class times. Total spoofer

I was wondering how you guys run, hence the question. I never improved after high school and stayed on the same level now that I'm 21.

I know this dude who NEVER runs and he just decided to run 10k in apublic race here in the Netherlands and he ended up running it in 43 minutes. Dutch lanklet freak genetics are nothing to be trifled with.

I want to believe but it's too fast to be true for anyone who doesn't train seriously. You say you do it regularly, perhaps the course you run is shorter than 4km. Even 3km in 12 minutes is respectable for a casual.

Perhaps, I just run from my student apartment to uni which is about 3km and then a bit into the forest behind it in a loop so I run 4km and then 3km back to my apartment.

Very impressive

is running enough to strengthen my legs or do I have to complement it with weight training? I'm asking because I started running a few weeks ago but my legs give out (as in, my muscles ache/"burn") too early. Like, after just 1km it's too uncomfortable to keep going for long even though I don't feel winded.

I would give you more realistic examples but then I was reminded over 66% population of your country is overweight.

Just went out for a 5k tempo. Of course this would just be an easy jog for Dutch user. We are blessed to have such world class talent posting amongst us

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Pretty impressive lad. 5k in 17 minutes is really good

This.

Oh okay, so you're admitting I'm right and you're wrong, sure. Let's move on.

t. uses a scooter in his morning jogs

Interested in this too.

Hopefully people can answer this instead of acting like children.

you're just overdoing it. for the first month or so you should alternate running a few minutes then walking.
your muscles should never hurt whilst excercising, the soreness comes the next day which shows they're healing and getting stronger.

Goal should always be a half marathon everything above hurts your health

Wait, really?
Guess a marathon is just once in a life then, after that just doing halves

Yeah marathons are a meme its more of a bucket list than an actual achievement most ppl do it in 5 hours orso barely above walking speed youre better off doing 5k and 10k for a hobby.

You should be doing strength training for reasons other than handling distances and stuff. Stronger abs will help you with breathing and stability, stronger arms and chest will help you with maintaining speed and posture, stronger glutes not only help with speed but also with injury prevention (specially if quad-dominant running), calves with injury prevention, etc. Sure, running will help you with gaining muscles but it's wise to do something extra. Also, it's not all about muscles but also posture, stride, flexibility and knowledge.

I've injured training for a half and I know people going for 70k+ ultras who never lost a day of training. People can run multiple marathons no problem but yes, you'll get injured sometimes.

outside of talking about it what is the point of running a marathon

Running is fun, healthy, keeps your weight down (specially important for your flag), and it's one of the things that makes you interesting in a random talk on a bar table.

I despise the London Marathon runners that are doing it to "raise awareness" for some charity which they ask other people to give th money for when really it's all about getting social attention for themselves. Just run the marathon for yourself.

My dad always says if you don't break 3 hours you can't say you ran a marathon. He hates all the casual joggers. I'm doing my first marathon this year. No pressure then