How can everyone learn to run 42,2 km?
Many believe that marathon is a distance for exceptional runners, not normal people. One need to possess the inherent super power to be able to run marathon. We at OMY! Sports strongly believe that running marathons can be learned by everyone.
What is wrong with marathon participation?
There are 1,1–1,3 mln marathoners in the world. According to statistics, they account for 12% of all race participants globally. This figure is going down since the year 2000 when marathon participation accounted for 25% of total number of particiapnts.
How much we doubt ourselves?
Most experience fear and self-doubt when deciding on marathon race:
“I definitely can’t do that. Never.”
“It’s too difficult. I don’t have that ability.”
“Without professional training there are 0 chances.”
The same was actually said by those who then ran their first 5K, 10K or even 21.1K from the couch.
Mararthon requires quality.
The higher the bar, the greater the quality requirement. You can prepare and run 5K or 10K from couch, but a marathon requires a more rational approach. The quality of training program, expertise and communication should be there.
Quality of training plan.
Updated algorithms of OMY! Sports training generation engine allow everyone to get customized marathon-specific workouts that are based on individual abilities. Now marathon challenge is achievable by everyone!
What has been improved?
- Flexible and individually customized logic of training volume growth depending on the time to the race.
- Special attention to the long run, taking into account individual parameters and the logic of changing the duration and intensity.
- Improved criteria of definition of individual peak running volume depending on various parameters.
- Better system response and adaptation to current running results and other specific performance indicators.
- Improved logic of setting up and initiation of training paces.
What will it give you?
Our workouts, especially the updated version, can improve your performance by 7–14% over time, depending on the distance and discipline.
What does this mean in numbers?
1 hour 50 minutes at a distance of 21.1 km can be improved by 8–17 minutes.
3 hours 50 minutes for 42.2 km can be improved by 20–35 minutes.*
OMY! Sports. Your personal running coach in mobile app.
*We do not promise to achieve such an increase after 1 month of training and do not predict the result for your next race. The improvement is achievable over undefined period of time and depends on personal physical abilities and training discipline.