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Yikes Frances - what marathon plan is that? Never seen a marathon plan with a training run being over the full distance! Am doing the Ladybower 50 in sept and the plan i'm following goes up to max of 30 miles in one go (tho that's with another long run the following day)....

MM6 - just had a look at your previous post and quite a few peeps have given very constructive info on the best watch to go for so don't bother not looking just 'cause you thought the first few posts were moaning.....

pretty much everyone who posts on here is very encouraging but obviously they need enough info from you to be able to give you advice. do you currently do any running at all? if not i'd test yourself over a mile or so (all you need is a stopwatch and a route which you could workout from mapmyrun or fetcheveryone) so you've got an idea of where you need to work up from....once you know that you'll be able to get yourself a plan set up accordingly.

2.5k in 9mins30 is pretty quick (under 4 mins per km, or, if my maths is right just over 6mins per mile) which i know for a fact i could never do..... there again i am a short ex smoker who's the wrong side of 40