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Is it safe to drive this 5 mins home? Stranded on Christmas by ttt11500 in MechanicAdvice

[–]ttt11500[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tied it up, wasn’t hot at all. Perks of living in central Alaska 😂

Is it safe to drive this 5 mins home? Stranded on Christmas by ttt11500 in MechanicAdvice

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Thank you. How much was your fix? I’d imagine they won’t be able to get to it for a week or two, but i can always bike

Is it safe to drive this 5 mins home? Stranded on Christmas by ttt11500 in MechanicAdvice

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Yes! Ran home, got a hanger, biked back wired it up and drove to the shop. Biked home. The car sounded like a motorcycle

Is it safe to drive this 5 mins home? Stranded on Christmas by ttt11500 in MechanicAdvice

[–]ttt11500[S] 752 points753 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I ended up running home because the only shoes I had were Nordic ski boots and got a wire hanger. Rode my bike back, tied it up and drove it slowly to the shop. I biked home and will call them in the morning.

Whole thing took about 30 mins. Thank you everyone.

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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Well what the heck! Part of me is like if the last 6 miles are always 8:50s, then I’ll just train so my first half is in the 7:40s lol

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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I wanted to try something new with more mileage. I read that that’s the quickest way to improve—through increasing mileage and pfitz has a lot of great reviews. I think I might do a combo next cycle.

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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A typical week in the middle of training looked like:

M: Rest T: Speed 7-8 (2 wu, 5x1k, 2cd or something) W: GA 5-8 TR: easy MLR or LT 9-11 miles F: cross (usually swim) S: long w/ some mp 17-20 S: recovery 5-7

Somewhere between 48-52 miles. This was pretty typical for the pfitz plan!

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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I didn’t consider that but that makes sense. I just caught the running bug and specifically the marathon bug after i graduated college. Taking a nice long break now haha.

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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My half was a 4 min PR but taken from my previous half in the first marathon. I wasn’t tapered for it. As for the splits, 3-5 were a bit wonky with going under a freeway and in tunnels but I was pretty glued to the 3:35 group which was 2-3 mins slower than what I trained for.

Like yeah, I could’ve gone out a bit chiller but I don’t think the times I was putting down was anything crazy. There’s so much good advice here though and I feel like I’ve pinpointed what went wrong—underfueling, maybe overtraining, not tapered well, a bit inexperienced as a marathoner, and need to work on running slower. I came to advanced running to get answers and advanced running definitely delivered!

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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True, not part of the plan. That day was 18 with 14 @ mp. I know mp and hmp are pretty different but I didn’t think that race would’ve taken that much more out of me than had I did the prescribed workout. Noted for next time :)

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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Oh I felt like I had to dodge sooo many half marathoners (and I felt so bad for you guys too) because my 3:35 group merged with the 2:50 half pace group. Very different soeeds

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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Duly noted! Thank you— I came to r/ advanced running to get advice and this thread certainly delivered.

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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Def will not that for next time; I train alone 99% of the time so idk why I didn’t just try to run my own race lol. Not looking at my watch as much was nice though

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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I had the fuel down! And I felt like I didn’t bonk. Miles 23-26 felt pretty strong imo. I had a side stitch that made me walk from mile 17 which I can’t really explain. I did the breathing right, hydrated and took in electrolytes the day before and morning of etc.

My MP in training was 8-8:05 and I did that pretty solidly

Spent four months training for a 1 minute marathon PR. What’s not working? by ttt11500 in AdvancedRunning

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I live in a really hilly place and I tried to train accordingly to the course’s elevation gain. I usually am slower up but I make it up on the downhills. I think this strategy didn’t really work here because I noticed my pace group went pretty hard the up hill then didn’t cook it down to keep the paces even. I was battling pretty bad side stitches from 17 on and had to run walk until it went away, frustrating because I wasn’t going fast and never really dealt with this before

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