Is Sub 4 Achievable?
I’ve been training for my first marathon since beginning of January and my first marathon is in 18 days. Hit my peak long run on this last Sunday at 21miles (split shown). I’ve ran one other 20 miler along with about 4 18milers leading up. I’ve averaged between 35-40 mpw(with the exception of about 2 weeks somewhere in the build due to life circumstances) with peak mileage at 45. This weeks begins my taper. My initial goal was to just finish the marathon confidently but after going through this training, sub 4 was starting to sound achievable. I’m 27M and my last long run shown.
This run certainly didn’t feel like my hardest run despite my HR being pretty high. I’d say this felt right under marathon effort for most of it until the last 2 miles or so (gonna blame nutrition on that one, as i could’ve done better for this run). The 20miler i had the week prior felt like how i would wanna feel for the marathon (also shown).
Do we think i can hang with the sub4 pacer?