HOW TO RUN A SUB 3 HOUR MARATHON! | Sage Running Training Tips and Workouts

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[russelllauer]

You have great knowledge of running and your presentation was great. I am inspired to run sub 3 hour marathon at age 55!! Russ

[TheMoonSeesMe]

Your metric friends say "thanks you"!

[molder]

Good stuff. Telling it like it is, no candy coating the reality of what has to be done. There is no candy coating in running, it’s the most brutally honest sport there is. Cover X distance in Y amount of time. Go.

[VitorCaldeira]

Hey Sage! I decided to follow your advanced boston marathon plan, i was only able to do 7 weeks of the plan, and yet i was able to run a 3h11 marathon, and feeling awesome during the whole race. I was able to run the second part of the marathon faster then the first part. Last year i finish the same marathon with the time of 3h36. Next year i will follow the entire plan and try for a sub 3h marathon. After this marathon i belive that it is a possible goal for me. Your plan is awesome and you are an amazing coach :)

[KrasenSlavov]

Great advice, thank you for the video. Two other workouts that are really challenging that I do are the "54321 Workout" where you run 5k, 4k, 3k, 2k & 1k starting pace for the 5k is 10sec slower than your marathon target pace and then you go down 10 seconds per km for each other interval (e.g. if your marathon target pace is 4:30/km then the paces you run would be 4:40/km for 5k, 4:30/km for 4k, 4:20/km for 3k, 4:10/km for 2k and 4:00 for 1k). The second workout would be the inverse pyramid 32123, again in kilometers, where you start 10 seconds faster than your marathon goal pace for the 3k and then go down to 30 seconds faster than your marathon pace for 1000m and go back up to 3 km with 10 seconds slower than your marathon pace.

[martinstigmar]

Before I found this video almost five years ago I had done 6 marathons above 3 hours. Now I have 5 straight sub 3 marathons. Good insights for stepping up the training. Thanks for the inspiration and knowledge ❤

[Abie]

Sage, on the eve of my 3rd marathon. I just wanted to give you a humongous thank you. You have been a gift for many and for especially for me. I am really grateful to have found your channel. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! All the best!!!

[supersrpkinja]

Currently training for my 13th marathon and hoping to finish it in or under 3h45min. Logging in 80 to 100 k a week. Thank you for the video, I will come back to it a couple of years down the road. :)

[GingerPhotographer]

I highly recommend Sage's training plans, I'm 45 now but when I was 43 I ran my first Marathon in 2015 with a time of 2:57 in Hannover, Germany and then later that year I ran my 2nd Marathon in Berlin with a time of 02:55! Recently purchased the HM plan for my up and coming HM in Berlin 02.04.2017. For both Marathons I peaked at around 120 km per week! Thumbs up!

[shenko]

Thank you for the info, Sage! All I would add is that the Long Run is extremely important regarding adding marathon pace. I know different things work for different folks but what I found works for me at my level is alternating harder long runs with slower ones the following week. Hard long runs are ran 6.52/7.0 for 18-20miles for 3hr marathon. Did that for a training block and ran 3.08 in June, 3.01 in Sept and got another attempt in soon. Faster stuff: 6-8 x strides 30 secs (4.30 pace). Keep up the gd work.👍Also got a channel featuring local master runners and running goals.

[ghgnj]

Thank you Sage, when I eventually hit sub-3 I plan on crediting my success to your videos and constant motivation

[dannusku]

thanks Sage, im at 3:02 for marathon im hoping to duck under the 3 in the next 18 months or so, great advice !

[Mikewolber]

Thanks for the tips, Sage. Just bought your BQ plan as I pursue a BQ @ CIM in December!

[Droubek]

Thanks for the video and thanks for so diligently including the metric units :)

[virgilious]

on the same weekend i'm actually trying to get my 1st sub 3 marathon :-)
great timing Sage ! tnx.

[benharris]

Love the metric conversions Sage. Thanks for the hot tips.

[matthewfischer]

Really enjoying the content on hitting different times in various race distances.

[johnlauer]

Hi Sage Im starting to train for my first marathon and am a Hoka Devotee!  I love them. With that said have you ever done a talk on the importance of the correct shoes. Support vs. Soft Vs. Firm etc. I have tried several different styles and have settled on Hokas. Injury and fatigue seem to have subsided but how true is this and how much attention should someone pay to the shoes they run in? Thanks and keep on inspiring ...

[runneree]

Thank you very much Sage, your videos awesome. We have dreams, and you are helping us:) from Turkey

[Postevka]

Thanks for tips bruh, deff need to plan out my long run, cause I just went for a blind run and got lost haha plus it started to pour raining. Good thing I brought my gopro with me so I can share my experience haha