Zero wrote:
1. You have 5 minutes to get into the proper clothes/shoes.
2. Then, you have 15 minutes to warm up.
3. Then, you start a 26.2 mile run on an indoor, concrete track.
4. You have access to your desired fluids/energy after every lap.
How fast could you run it?
I liked the premise, but the indoor concrete thing is unnecessary. I am not going to consider that in my response.
The cool part about this premise is that you have to take into account whether or not you just ate a huge meal or have not eaten in hours. What type of training you are in within this month, year... and then what type of training you are in within this week... did you do a hard workout yesterday/ this morning?
Those are the interesting things to consider with this idea of a questions.
IN any case... i am starting marathon training for a race at the end of april. i did a solid 14 mile run around 6:30 pace on monday. its my longest run in about 9 months. my goal marathon pace is 5:59. Yesterday was an easy day. I would say I would be able to run 2:45 if i ran a marathon today on a flat course. 6:18 pace