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I first read about George Meyers' pacing formula in Runner magazine (which was rolled into Runner's World) several years ago. Hal Higdon's book "Marathon" also references his formula for determining your best marathon pacing on race day. To the best of my understanding, there is not a training program associated with it. Jeff Galloway's book on Running can help you there.
It is Myers' belief that a runner cannot maintain true "even pace" as your mind/body tires/dehydrates over the 26 miles. Meyers feels his formula provides optimal energy management for best finishing time. I can attest that I've never run another disappointing marathon since adopting it (assuming I've trained properly).
There's really nothing more to it than what I include here. Below is his formula, along with pace computations for a 3 hour finish. Simply make your own pace computations based on your target finish time.
Phase 1 - Miles 1 - 12 (3.756% of finish time) 6:46 per mile
Phase 2 - Miles 13 - 18 (3.8086% of finish time) 6:51 per mile
Phase 3 - Miles 19 - 23 (3.8725% of finish time) 6:58 per mile
Phase 4 - Miles 24 - 26 (3.95% of finish time) 7:07 per mile
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