Marathon Training: the 2 hour Principle

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🔹 Next Races:

- October 20th: Amsterdam Marathon - Netherlands
- (mystery race)
- November 15th: World Mountain Running Championships - Argentina
- December 15th: Spartan Trail US Championship - California

🔹 Training this week:

Monday September 30:
⁃ 24 miles Long Run Steady
⁃ Gym: lift, plyos, stretch, foam, pool

Tuesday October 1:
- 10 miles am steasy
- 6 miles easy

Wednesday October 2:
⁃ 9 mile threshold run
- 8 mile steasy

Thursday October 3:
- 15 miles Grays & Torreys
- 6 miles easy

Friday October 4:
- 8 miles easy
⁃ Gym: stretch, foam, pool, plyometrics, lift + strides

Saturday October 5:
- 3 mile shakeout + strides

Sunday October 6:
- 12K US Mt Championships
- Warm up, Cool Down

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🔹 Daily Running Vlog Write-Up

Marathon training is rapidly coming to a close for me, but not before a quick reflection on why I run past two hours so often in my training. Training for a marathon is no joke, especially in the modern world when our lives are busy. But if you want to run faster, especially for a marathon race, I'm a firm believer in emphasizing aerobic development over anaerobic efforts.

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[Sarah-gxlr]

One year ago I started a couch to 5k program and the thought of running for 2 MINUTES straight seemed impossible! Lol
A year later I can run for an hour straight! Massive improvement! But that 2 hour goal is not too far away!
Thanks for the content!

[RareAirTwo]

Running 2 hours a day religiously was how I lost 160 lbs, going from 333 lbs to 172 lbs

[kenwaugh]

Really appreciate you giving metric distances and paces

[newbeginnings]

2 hours and 19 minutes? You’re a Beast Man! Dang! Takes me 2 hours to run half marathon!

[apollobarkley]

I’ve done my first two 2-hour runs during the past two Sundays. Will keep it up. Thanks for the knowledge, Seth.

[notapro]

You Tube is my primary source of research

[brianpanwala]

In both of my marathons I cramped up around mile 23, and now that I look back, I hardly ran over 2 hours. Only about 3 times when the weekend long run got long enough. I'm following a 50k training session (for a marathon) and i'm now running 2+ hours twice a week for 4 of the 12 weeks, and i can feel my legs getting stronger. Thanks for the confidence that I made a good choice, love your videos!

[joshuaong]

Seth : 27km "Easy" Run at 4:30 per km.

Me: Dead at 1km Repeat at 4:30 per km

[diegobencomo]

This is very motivating! I started doing 1.5 hours minimum everyday with my Sunday runs being longer and longer. I started doing this on January 2nd and I am committed to doing it all year long. I’m about 265 and I really want to get down to a healthy weight. A healthy weight for me would be 180.

[Abes]

QD: I like to use multiple sources, but youtube has been most helpful in making hard to understand training methods easier to comprehend.

[partogisimbolon]

My resources mostly come from various youtube running channels. There is so much information to digest.

[m.r.]

I did steady state run training during an Ironman training block a number of years back. I had my best stand alone marathon time as well as a 5k PR because of that. I unfortunately got away from that type of running and haven’t been able to have the same success. So looking forward to getting back to that. Thanks for the video Seth!

[adyfv]

I totally agree when I did 2 long runs a week I ran my best time and you can take so much from elite too very good club runners

[sopatisserie]

I am a beginner runner. I watch a lot of youtube videos like yours. I'am 58, I actually started with research on intermittent fasting and healthy food. Then I started to run 6 months ago. You are so passionnate when you take about running program, you really inspire me. In the past I always believed that I can't run. Thanks to people like you for the sharing of information and experience, now my goal is next season half-marathon in Paris. 😉

[Nonixification]

QOD: Your channel and others helping a lot! (Sage, Ben Parkes, kofuzi) When I started I followed a 12 weeks 5K plan on my garmin app and gave me a good baseline what is easy run, steady state run, recovery run, intervals etc.

[carlosbentzen]

I’ve been following the 80/20 running book training plans. Currently doing a 5K training block.

[waynetang]

There are definitely two schools of thought: Pile on the miles through the whole week or a single long run once a week with intervals, medium, recovery, and tempo runs.
Like everything else, it depends on the person.
My friend had to put in 70 mile weeks in order to BQ. On the other hand, I did the varied distance training, plus weight lifting and BQ'ed. We are about the same age, height weight, ect. It took both of us about 2 years of running marathons before we actually BQ'ed.
It really comes down to the person. If you are the type that has no problem with logging miles daily because you find it unappealing to push through the intervals to meet the interval goals then you should consider the piling on the mileage approach.
However if you can do the intervals and can push yourself to meet the goals for the intervals you are doing, then mixed approach might be for you.
Piling on the mileage does take time and can be monotonous. One the other hand, intervals (if you are doing them right) aren't a whole lot of fun either when you first start doing them. When I say doing them right, I mean you should be giving it 100% to hit your time goal for your interval and only resting for the specified time before the next. You will know you are doing them right, when you doubt whether or not it is even possible. This can be a grueling process and I can understand why people wouldn't want to go this route.
You will know your ready when hitting your interval goals aren't even given a second thought.
Again, you got to know and be honest with yourself before picking a training program.

[albertofarber]

QOD: i train by myself, for road runs i use the garmin connect plans, it really helps, for mountain runs i try to mimic the altimetry and to improve form, strengh and things like these i use youtube (yours,

[gokiwi]

QD: you & other you tubers like Sage Cannady, Harry Run, Michael Kofuzi, The running Guru, The Running Experience Channel, Ben Parkes, Vegan Bro Science, The Runner (vegan runner) are who I take the good & the bad from & put my own running plan together, excellent video Seth, good luck in Amsterdam 👍🏻

[PaulBaird]

I’m training for a 1:45 half marathon in Amsterdam this year.