I found an interesting question on askhalhigdon, from a person training for his first marathon asking if he could go 22 miles on his first 20 miler ... Then 24 on his second ... I smiled because i did just that ! Hal feedback .,. Could you? Yes ... Why would you? Hal suggest the 20 miler is enough for a first timer ... And it may be even too much a strain to go over 20 for a first timer. Looking back i can see some of the logic now ... Considering that 24 miles is almost a full marathon ... The recovery from such distance the first time you reach it is gonna be intense even if reaching that distance itself may not seem like such a stretch ... It raises the risk of injury and may also result in "overtraining" which will make the first marathon more difficult than it needs to be.
But Hal also suggest that second and third timer marathoners should be able to adjust the mileage to what feels right based on their marathon experience. As one runs more mararhon Hal even suggests to experiment with other training schedules. So Really i shouldn't feel so locked in the mileage ... I already committed the rookie mistake ... But now that i am a marathon runner i can call it simply "experimenting" lol
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