From 0 to a Marathon in 22 weeks.

Nice one Steph! And good to hear you can already push a little more - starting further up the field next time should shave a few seconds off

I want 27:x already hehe did not think I'd ever get sub 29 and done that already 

lol Steph, give it another year and you'll be wanting 19*

Need to look up Good for age... That was about 54% mara was 48% would love to hit 60% GFA but not sure how much commitment that takes.

Humm 25:30ish and 4:01:00ish for 60% GFA wonder which I can get closest to.

WOW, if I ran a whole marathon at the speed I ran the 5k at today that would be a 4:01 marathon... How the heck do people do that. 

If anyone has the determination you have Steph

Just put my most recent (and best of year) 5k time in into http://www.runbayou.com/Wavacalc.htm and it said 48.65% so need to try harder

That's what I was using. 53.84 for my 5k today. F, 42.

Have saved that to my favs M 53 and my Mile time of 7:46 is 56% and can see that 60% is a good target to aim for and 'local class'.

Ohhh Parkruns are up on runbritain.  I'm now in the top 175,000 hehe

Still cannot believe i'm the same person that in March 2012 was 15.5+ stone and had never ran a step in my adult life.

hehe i'm in the top 8700 women over 40 My handicap is down to 27? that's just about a valid golf handicap isn't it? that counts as being respectable.

So, wonder how hard i need to work to get in the top 5k over 40's .... quite a lot me thinks!! Anway i'm going to do a few more parkruns in the next couple of months as i've only got 3 races on my stats, should get upto at least 5

5m / 8km in 49:47 sub 10m miles

now I just need to work out how to do it for another 21.2 miles.....

Well done on making the top 175,000 Steph And yup, if you met an old friend in the street tomorrow they'd probably walk past you

Have you managed a sub 60 10k yet? Todays 3 mile recovery run ended up at 5 miles run at 3secs/mile under MP so guess tomorrow should be a recovery day rather than hills

No not tried for 10km under 60m yet was on 9.7km in an hour pace tonight.. Still only 2 weeks today I'm post mara, and smashed my 5k and only had 1 day off in the two weeks. 

Knackered now and seriously looking forward to long weekend have Tuesday off as well as bank holiday. 

Think in late July / August will try to get sub 1h 10k not sure if it would happen but love it if I could.

like you today became a just sub mara paced 5 mile run 

what time are you hoping for Loch Ness (taking for granted rather, that finishing is a pretty neat milestone irrespective of time).

just checked, mcmillen calculator says I should do a 59:20 10km based on my 5km.... Yikes, guess I had better get my finger out.

lol Steph and yes, goal #1 is to finish, #2 is to get under 5 hours (so 4:59:59). Last weeks 5k works out at 4:58 on MacMillan Though the shorter distances might be less accurate?

Considering your really still in 'recovery' think of what your times will be like when your back training for a specific distance

I went through half way in about 2:21, then 2:35 for my 4:56

Cool The above 5k in 30:35 shows as 2:21 for a HM and 4:58 for FM so we seem close and there is hope for me providing training goes well

Looks perfect... Now you just need to build up the endurance to keep plodding on

lol but, am realising that's harder than first thought but you all give me inspiration

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Cool The above 5k in 30:35 shows as 2:21 for a HM and 4:58 for FM so we seem close and there is hope for me providing training goes well

But did you "race" the 5K or was it just in training?  If you're training 5K in that time I'd imagine in a real race you'd be a fair bit quicker and be looking at a quicker marathon estimate.

Good point Dave, it was a training run. My 5k PB is 28:42 and think my best training run was around 30:30 just before it. I had been told you can run a race faster than in training (adrenalin and all that). That would give a 4:39 Mara

Steph you should enter Rothley 10K,June 11, 7.15pm and  not far from you at all (10 minutes down the A6?)