Lands end to London and then London Marathon

Hi,

I'm new here! First post.  I'm 29 and enjoy fitness, I've done a range of sports from surfing, skate boarding,baskbetball to boxing and recently squash. I am toying with the idea of doing a charity run (Marathon?).

Start from Lands end, Pen running to London and doing the London Marathon.  I'll plan to have rest over night after each set of miles but aim on last day to arrive at London and then run the marathon.

Just hoping for some guidence on the planning, trainning, ideal miles to do each day etc and what I would need.......  Any advice would greatly be appreciahted.

Many Thanks

Waz!

And in which year are you planning on doing this?

2014

Fair enough, you've earned an honest answer! lol Had you said this year you'd have been hounded from the forum 

292 miles on foot, if you averaged 11 m/m 26.5 hrs, if you plan on doing this everyday, I'd suggest maybe running 3 hrs a day? That would be 9 days. you can do it quicker if you want, but obviously the less time you give yourself, the less likely you'll be to make the start line in London, plus even giving yourself a years full training will still make you a novice for even a single marathon, let alone what you're considering.

As for training, that depends entirely on what you're already doing, and what you're capable of without training, no one can help you unless they know what they're starting with. Surfing, skate boarding, baskbetball, boxing and recently squash wont really help you much unless they've kept your weight down, which I'm assuming they do. 

Get outside and assess your running fitness, run slowly, and see how far you can run without pain. Then come back to the forum 

In fairness he doesn't have a plan, that's what he's asking. 

All anyone can do in such a position is assess their running fitness then start a short distance plan, say half marathon, and see how they go, after that maybe do marathon training to get the mileage up, then start proper ulltra training. There's only one way to find out if you've got it in you.

 75 miles a day for 3 to 4 days... good luck with that then...

...have you ever ran 75 miles?

How do you plan to obtain your London marathon place?

He said he's doing it for charity.

I got my maths all wrong yesterday 

I think unless you're already running 20 mile lsr's every week, you'll be lucky to make the start line in 14 days, that's 20 miles a day! 

"I'm also lucky to be blessed that I've always been good at running long lengths at a nice pace, whether through doing high intense sports all my life I dunno......"

What running have you actually done?

It's going to take a long time to toughen up our ligaments and tendons to cope with 75 mile a day...

if you are used to doing long runs laready without any problems then you might well be able to do it in 3 days...........

have you done back to back martahons or training runs....what time and pace did it take you and how was the recovery.

at the beginning it sounded like you were just fairly new to running running 10k's or half marathons.........

if you already run long regulary then you have already started building up the strength in all the parts

Well,

I used to do alot of running a few years ago. Every night I'd run (never tracking my miles or times... just running and running until I thought it was time to go home). On average I was running all over from town to town so I'd say anything from 20 to 25 miles a night back then possibly?!?!?

Past 3 years I've just done sports like boxing (including running but not to the extent above).  I've not done any real exercise since xmas just gone but have started Squash to get some intensive cardio going.  I've not done any real running for awhile but I adapt quick.  I will do a run this week and see how I go (I'll probley die at 1 mile).

I understand alot training is a head of me, I've given myself just over a year to achive this run.  I dont want to break reacrds or leap through the miles but just achive this for charity.  I think my max time would be 1 week (7 days), London marathon is 20th April (a sunday).

So i suppose if I wanted to achive this it would be roughly 50 miles or less a day.........

Inregards of a spot in the Marathon, I should be ok to get a placement through charity I have a meeting soon.  They may tell me I'm mad and no!

Thanks Again

if you drop the other stuff and start back running then it sounds like you have the nature that could do this run.....

start now but building up and see how you feel..............you wouldn't need to set the number of days that you would take until at least 6 months time and that would give you a better idea of where you are in terms of mileage and recovery

good luck

Thanks for reply Seren, brilliant advice.

Sorry to be dumb found, Back running is???

sorry.my valleys talk..............meaning start getting back into running........meaning just go and start running again as you have had a break from it doing other sports