@igelkott2021
Ok now I've read the first five pages of this thread and I think it's a wind-up. Nobody who runs 10k three times a week and has allegedly done marathons in the past can be this clueless about the demands of a marathon.
Hill sprints?
Running two half marathons in a day to see if you can do it?
Oh dear.
Go back to your bridge OP.
There is not a lot of point on coming onto my thread and telling me that what I am saying is not true.
Obviously, I know what I am saying is true, this is my life! I am living it!
So your post is just complete nonsense to me, isn't it!
The people on this thread do seem to hold marathons in very high regard, which is fine, but in my life, and my experience, and my running groups, this is not so
I've gone to marathon and half marathon events where people run several marathons on consecutive days, or even half marathons every day for 10 days!
I am very much in the far and slow category. I think a lot of people on this thread have a very different aim, getting a fast time recorded, and pushing themselves to go really fast - that might account for some of the different attitude, and of course they train very seriously
I have never been a serious runner
My question about this specific marathon is the time limit. I had not done anything above 10 k for a while, I have not done an organised road marathon for many years
( they are much faster than the trail ultras I occasionally do - also without specific training, plans or strategies - just turn up and run laps until you have had enough)