When the next marathon comes around I'll probably enter in it if my coach lets me. Chances are he won't let me enter though due to the chance of injury when running a marathon.
The next one isn't till October 12 so hopefully I'll be fit enough by then for him to be confident that I won't injure myself.
Also, what I was saying about my friends not being able to push through the last 10k's was that once they started to fatigue to the extent that they were getting muscle spasms a lot of them would just stop and walk the rest of the way or even drop out of the race just because of the associated pain and the knowledge that they still had 10ks to go.
What was your training program when you were training for the marathon?
metalstorm
I've always wanted to run a marathon but I've never really got around to it. There's only one big marathon held in my city each year and I've always had other stuff on when it came around.
If you're running the first 10k or a marathon in 45 I'm guessing you'd be at about 40min for a 10k and you ran almost double that in the last 10k's of the marathon. Most of the guys I train with with are national standard runners, some are even international standard and there's no way half of them would push through that for 10ks
You've still got a bit of work to go but hopefully you can break your 3:10:59 goal in your next marathon.
Warrickneff (Updated )
I can't recommend the experience enough! I've had 2 days to ponder it, and I think the final 10K might have been one of the hardest things I've ever had to do.
It's kind of a weird feeling.
I'm not 100% sure what you mean about your friends and their ability to push a 10k, but I'm gonna keep at it. You're correct about my 10k speed though, I haven't run a race pace 10k since last year and it was 40:40, before I started the marathon training.
I might try another marathon at the end of September, the Toronto Waterfront. It's something I look forward too!