Comrades Marathon Silver Medal – How Fast Must You Run?
Comrades Marathon Silver Medal – How Fast Must You Run?
On Ask Coach Parry over the last few days we have been talking about the various Comrades Marathon finisher medals. Today we wrap up the five episodes regarding the times you should be aiming at so over the shorter distances to secure your goal medal at the Comrades Marathon.
Today we are talking about one that probably less than 5% of the Comrades Marathon field get. Silver medals, you have got to be a pretty decent runner. What do you need to do from a running perspective, for a 10 km half marathon or marathon time to get yourself a silver medal, a sub 7½ Comrades Marathon?
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Brad Brown: On Ask Coach Parry over the last few days we have been talking about the various Comrades Marathon finisher medals. Today we wrap up the five episodes regarding the times you should be aiming at so over the shorter distances to secure your goal medal at the Comrades Marathon.
Today we are talking about one that probably less than 5% of the Comrades Marathon field get. Silver medals, you have got to be a pretty decent runner. What do you need to do from a running perspective, for a 10 km half marathon or marathon time to get yourself a silver medal, a sub 7½ Comrades Marathon?
How hard to push
LINDSEY PARRY: To get a silver Comrades Marathon medal you do need to be a very good runner and then you have got to apply yourself and do really good training. The combination of those two effectively means you need to be a sub 40, 10 km runner.
At least a 39 will probably help if you are a little bit quicker over 10 km. Your 21 km, between 80, well sub 85 but again, depending on the type of athlete you are, you might be able to get away with an 87 and then your marathon is 3 hours and just like with a Bill Rowan, I put a little asterisk there and I say males, sub 3 hours.
There is always one or two 3.05-ish guys that also manage to sneak silver but they are very few. But females 3.05 to 3.10 and there is a reasonable number of females, again because their pacing strategy on race day is so much better. So, males 3 hours, females 3 hours 10.
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