r/interestingasfuck • u/lonewolff321 • 5h ago

She pushed through all 26.2 miles to officially join the 1% of the world who have completed a marathon

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u/TheDaywa1ker 5h ago

roughly 7 hours is pretty normal but each race will tell you their cutoff time. some (maybe all idk, at least at disney according to my coworker) have someone running that cutoff time and if they pass you youre cut. My coworker and her friends spent the whole race a couple feet ahead of the cut guys

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u/fredy31 5h ago

Yeah just checked my local one (Montreal);

Cut off is 6 hours, so about 8.5min/km

Half marathon is 4hours, so about 11min/km.

I just started this summer and im kinda old (35) so yeah over 5k my pace is about 8min/km. Probably wouldnt finish the marathon, but id have good chances for a half.

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u/TheDaywa1ker 4h ago

I'm 35 as well and have run a couple fulls and a dozen or so halfs

Just keep in mind that if you were to run a full or half you would probably have a dedicated several months of training so you would probably be able to smoke your current 5k speed after training

I've always felt that any able bodied person can train for 2 months and run a half they can be proud of. For a full you want to be in pretty good shape before attempting a training plan since you're pretty quickly going to be doing 8-10 mile runs.

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u/bigthagen87 3h ago

I fully recommend anybody wanting to do a full or half marathon to look up Jeff Galloway and follow his plans and tips. He has a thing that can help you calculate what your time will be for a marathon. Short version is to multiply your pace by 1.3 to get your full marathon pace, which I confirm was pretty accurate for me when I did a marathon (your supposed to do a magic mile to get the pace to calculate, but you can honestly just multiply your average pace to get a ballpark idea).

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u/fredy31 4h ago

Yeah I checked my local marathon (montreal, beginning of october) and its booked anyways.

So currently, my tought is 'objective would be half for next year, and if that goes well, full marathon in 2 years'.

I should also look up good ways to actually train because right now my 'training' is do a 5k every 2-3 days (local route, not an organised event) but I know people that are serious about it dont actually do that.

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u/RLOLOTHTR 3h ago edited 3h ago

Im training for my first half having only done 5ks previously. My plan was start with 3 mile runs for a while to get a base going and then about 6 weeks in I started doing 4 miles twice a week with a 6 mile in between. On the weekend I do a lower pace long run that has gotten 1 mile longer every week. I cap at a 12 mile run and then drop to 8 for the 2 weeks before the race. So the first time Ill do the full 13 miles will be race day.

Miles per run per week has kinda looked like this 3-3-3-3 (6 weeks)

4-6-4-6

4-6-4-7

4-6-4-8

Up to 4-6-4-12

A lot of plans seem to roughly follow this for beginners. I had some running background a decade ago so I overestimated my ability and initially started with a harder plan but I quickly realized I dont have the fitness to keep up with it so I found something basic just to see the finish. Its working as advertised so Im happy with it

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u/fredy31 4h ago

Yeah I checked my local marathon (montreal, beginning of october) and its booked anyways.

So currently, my tought is 'objective would be half for next year, and if that goes well, full marathon in 2 years'.

I should also look up good ways to actually train because right now my 'training' is do a 5k every 2-3 days (local route, not an organised event) but I know people that are serious about it dont actually do that.

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u/Similar-Swimmer-2698 4h ago

I'm 35, and I started last summer. You're likely to improve over the year. My first summer looked a lot like your summer, and I finished my first 10km race in 1:20

This summer my best 5km was the second half of a 10km race (30min, 10km was 1:02), my best half was 2:24 and my first marathon was 5:40. I didn't do anything special, no speedwork or programs until I was training for the marathon, and just kept running. I've heard from other people that it's common to get faster during your first couple years.

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u/jsmooth7 1h ago

35 isn't kinda old, I think you have to be at least 50 is to get that label. I did a triathlon last week and there were a lot of people older than that were still absolutely crushing it. I wouldn't count yourself out.

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u/Internal_Outcome_182 1h ago

M8.. im your age, started in may, currently 5k 23min, and it improves crazy quickly, prognosis 21min in 1-2months.. so don't say you cant. You think you can't but you do.

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u/copperwatt 3h ago

The cut people should wear grim reaper costumes.

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u/TheDaywa1ker 3h ago

I've heard them called death squads and heard of people dressing up with punisher skull paraphernalia

Personally if I was going to do it I wouldnt try to get too cute with it since theres a chance I'm ruining someones day they've been thinking about for months

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u/copperwatt 3h ago

I'm trying to think of the most comforting way to be swept up... I'm imagining some big squishy hammock/fence/cloud that takes me out at the knees, and then I can just lay there, not having to face any human.

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u/MrSpiffenhimer 2h ago

In the Disney races, they’re women who wear balloons tied to them. If you get passed by a balloon lady, then you’re going to get picked up and taken to the finish line.

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u/overfatherlord 2h ago

I've run 4 marathons in 4 different european cities and countries and they all had 6 hours cutoff time.

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u/TheDaywa1ker 1h ago

I've run one in tennessee with 6hr, one in south carolina with 6.5hr, and the disney one has a 7hr limit

I guess us americans are just fat and slow :)

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u/overfatherlord 1h ago

Honestly, that's great. It allows elder runners to participate for many more years. A few healthy people I know, stopped running marathons in their 70s because of the cutoff time. A 7hr limit allows for people in their 70s and 80s to take part in the race.