LOL. My ability to register is entirely conditional. If I don’t hit said condition by 1/1/26, I’ll delete this thread.As the unofficial official marathon weekend thread creator, I’m not sure I approve of this post.
Well now I kinda want to know what these health goals are! Maybe one or some of us can help with personal experiences.
Basically, if I’m down to 190 by my next birthday (fluctuating in low to mid 220’s). Gives me a full year to drop 30-ish pounds.
You got this! Training along is worth about half of that! The other half is not fun diet stuff.
As someone with similar numbers and goals, I'd say be content with getting down to ~200 in the span of a year, assuming that the weight came off slowly as that it has a higher chance of being off permanently. I managed to get down to right at 202-203, then sustained an injury and between that and the holiday season, managed to put back on 7-8 pounds. So now it's back to being more disciplined about the eating while I ramp back up on the exercise to try to get back to <200 for MW 2026.
I'm also thinking about Dopey in 2027! I'll be 53. I've done one full, in 2018, and haven't run a half since doing the princess weekend challenge in 2024. I figure I'll need two years to prepareI am also considering Dopey in 2027. I did the marathon for my 50th in 2022. Seriously feeling the FOMO this week.
, but the looking at the training plan it makes me wonder how people that work full time train!
I trained for the Dopey in the span of a year. The HARM method in my signature is essentially what I did. The answer to your question about how to train when you work is a lot of maintenance runs of 3 to 4 miles at least every other day. As I got closer to MW I often did my maintenance runs back-to-back to get myself used to the back-to-back runs that Dopey requires. I tried to do longer runs on the weekends, and I did, but never to the full distances called out by Galloway or similar training plans. So for me, the Dopey was about building up overall stamina and endurance, not necessarily for a given distance. And as I have noted in prior posts, the Dopey was (and is) an exercise in exertion management for the first three races to leave enough in the tank for the marathon. Good luck with it!I'm also thinking about Dopey in 2027! I'll be 53. I've done one full, in 2018, and haven't run a half since doing the princess weekend challenge in 2024. I figure I'll need two years to prepare
This is 100% spot on for me as well. And yeah, it makes me feel a little bit lame to turn to DH and be all we are going to do intervals for the 5k, for the first half the the 10k and then walk the 2nd half, then run to MK in the Half and walk it in, and then see how it goes on Sunday. Because I'm not fast, and I would burn myself out massively if I decided to do intervals for all 4 races. So I frame it as an endurance challenge and am happy to finish.
Ditto, ditto. I did Dopey in '22, so it was bucket list item checked off and the extra time for a 5 and 10 just aren't worth it, at least not currently, so Goofy for me.
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