![]() A Sub 3 Hour Marathon is a “Local Class” Timeģ hours for a marathon is certainly not a “ world” class time, but it is a “ local class” time and an ambitious goal. ![]() In the end, I realized, I needed only three different focused workouts a week, affording lots of recovery days. I stripped out all running and training that was not exactly specific to the goal of running a 3 hour marathon. A delicate razors edge balance between training and recovering to avoid injury. My training approach was to train just hard enough to be able to run a 3 hour marathon, but not train so hard that I got injured. When I finally broke 3 hours for a marathon, I was nearly 50 years old and injury prone. No more, no less than what is required to attain the goal. Consider the plan presented here a “ Just Enough Training Approach“. My purpose in writing this post is to share what worked for me. A sub 4 hour Ridge Run garners a heck of a lot of respect in the local community.Īfter many failed personal attempts at trying to break 3 hours in the Marathon using various training plans, I finally succeed by focusing on the bare essentials. See the post on how to estimate your Ridge Run Finish Time. Why put this treatise on how to run a marathon in under 3 hours on a forum about the Bridger Ridge Run? In my experience, if you can run a standard marathon in under 3 hours, you are capable of running the Ridge Run under 4 hours. It is more than a few runners that are interested in breaking the 3 hour barrier for a marathon. There is even a blog,, which has the sole purpose of helping people break 3 hours in the marathon. As a benchmark, it indicates that as a runner you have at least a little talent and enough dedication to training and hard work to bring that talent out. Running a Marathon under 3 hours is a very respectable goal.
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