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I am planning on running my first marathon this December. I haven't started officially training yet but I've been starting to stack up weekly miles just to get my body "pre trained" and get comfortable with it. It's been hard but really enjoyable (I've even ran 20 miles twice so far just to prove to myself that I can do it). When I initially started my goal was just to finish, then I wanted to go sub 5, then sub 4:30, but just today I decided I think it might be possible to go sub 4. My garmin seems to think I can do it in 3:50 which is encouraging (even though I've heard Garmin can be pretty optimistic). I've put my data into runalyze and it says right now I should be able to do it in 4:05. I'm leaving for vacation for a couple weeks and will start actual training in mid Jume which will give me 26 weeks to get ready. Anyway I'm just posting this here so that hopefully in December I can come back to it and give a good report.

TLDR: 44 year old Dad thinks (hopes) he can run first marathon in sub 4 :)

I am planning on running my first marathon this December. I haven't started officially training yet but I've been starting to stack up weekly miles just to get my body "pre trained" and get comfortable with it. It's been hard but really enjoyable (I've even ran 20 miles twice so far just to prove to myself that I can do it). When I initially started my goal was just to finish, then I wanted to go sub 5, then sub 4:30, but just today I decided I think it might be possible to go sub 4. My garmin seems to think I can do it in 3:50 which is encouraging (even though I've heard Garmin can be pretty optimistic). I've put my data into runalyze and it says right now I should be able to do it in 4:05. I'm leaving for vacation for a couple weeks and will start actual training in mid Jume which will give me 26 weeks to get ready. Anyway I'm just posting this here so that hopefully in December I can come back to it and give a good report.

TLDR: 44 year old Dad thinks (hopes) he can run first marathon in sub 4 :)

I am planning on running my first marathon this December. I haven't started officially training yet but I've been starting to stack up weekly miles just to get my body "pre trained" and get comfortable with it. It's been hard but really enjoyable (I've even ran 20 miles twice so far just to prove to myself that I can do it). When I initially started my goal was just to finish, then I wanted to go sub 5, then sub 4:30, but just today I decided I think it might be possible to go sub 4. My garmin seems to think I can do it in 3:50 which is encouraging (even though I've heard Garmin can be pretty optimistic). I've put my data into runalyze and it says right now I should be able to do it in 4:05. I'm leaving for vacation for a couple weeks and will start actual training in mid Jume which will give me 26 weeks to get ready. Anyway I'm just posting this here so that hopefully in December I can come back to it and give a good report.

TLDR: 44 year old Dad thinks (hopes) he can run first marathon in sub 4 :)

So I recently got a Garmin forerunner 55 to help track my miles, HR etc and it has the "race predictions" on it. I have heard from a lot of people that these, on average, tend to be pretty optimistic but it's been kind of fun watching the race time predictions get faster with the more run data it collects. This is my first marathon and I am definitely a beginner but my goal is to get 4:30. Well my Garmin is predicting a 4:01:04 and so now my goal (in training) is to get a sub 4 race prediction and I figure that should give me hope that my actual race time will be around 4:30 ha ha.

So I recently got a Garmin forerunner 55 to help track my miles, HR etc and it has the "race predictions" on it. I have heard from a lot of people that these, on average, tend to be pretty optimistic but it's been kind of fun watching the race time predictions get faster with the more run data it collects. This is my first marathon and I am definitely a beginner but my goal is to get 4:30. Well my Garmin is predicting a 4:01:04 and so now my goal (in training) is to get a sub 4 race prediction and I figure that should give me hope that my actual race time will be around 4:30 ha ha.

I am training for my first marathon and a lot of things I keep seeing are people saying to make sure you are also doing "strength training" in the midst of your weekly running. This may be a stupid question, but is this specific to let strength training or is it also referred to like lifting and upper body stuff as well?

Training for my first marathon that is at the end of this year. I have been using Strava on my phone for the last couple weeks and it's been good for tracking distances and paces, but didn't have any heart rate info. Just got the Garmin Forerunner 55 yesterday and I love it! It is a super basic watch and doesn't have a lot of the bells and whistles that the more expensive ones have but I got it brand new for $100 so the band for buck ratio is great. It's been really interesting seeing all the HR info and it's been a good motivation to keep going because it's like having a new toy ha ha. As stupid as it sounds... it also makes me feel more like a "real runner"

Hey everyone, I just got my first Garmin (the forerunner 55). I love it. I know it is the most basic one, but it is all the stuff I need. The only problem I'm having is that I am currently training for a marathon but the training plans only go up to half marathon. I had read that if I add a marathon event in the connect app then it should sync to the watch and give me suggestions for marathon training. When I put the event in the calendar on the app and I go to "send to device" it then lists the forerunner 55 as "not compatible." I have made the event "primary" and all the permissions look correct so I'm just wondering why it's not working. Any suggestions would be helpful. Or any suggestions on how to get a marathon training plan onto the forerunner 55. Thank you.