Weekly Workout | Marathon Tempo Race Prep

“Marathon Tempo Tuesday”

Warmup jog
3-4 mile tempo run @ aerobic threshold pace
Cooldown jog

To calculate aerobic threshold pace, add 45 seconds to 1 minute per mile to your current or estimated 10K race pace. For most, this is around marathon race pace. This pace should feel hard enough to where you are outside of normal conversational pace but slower than race effort. It is comfortably fast and should be invigorating, building you up instead of breaking you down. Your goal with this workout is to be steady and consistent with your splits and not to overdo things. When you are finished you want to feel like you could have done at least one more mile.