This is the best sub-4 video I've seen. No silly training sessions, just simple, logical, precise advice

Ran 3:57:24 yesterday at the Columbus Marathon. It was my first marathon and your videos have been a big help. Thanks for all you do!

My first marathon (virtual, ran all alone) was 6:23. This year I did my 2nd Marathon (live race) and I did 5:35 . ...weather was much better and I had the fellow racers is what I credit it to. Hope next year I can get to 5 or under.

Great advice as always Jane! Dialing in all aspects of health, diet, rest and training can be tweaked to bring improvement to our racing. Perfection isn't necessary! Keep pushing!

So much great advice! I did my last marathon about 20 years ago and then took a lot of time off due to knee issues. Started running again about 7 years ago or so and FINALLY signed up for a marathon again - coming up in October. I'm excited and a bit nervous. Lucky, I'm in a city with a great running community, so there's a marathon training team and so much support, which I always tell anyone to seek out if they live in an area with a decent running community. My goal is at least a sub-9 minute pace. Now, to put in that training!

This was so inspiring, Jane. You make this seem achievable for amateurs. You must be one heck of a coach; )

That’s so motivating to hear any one can do a sub 4 with enough work. I am not sure I will every push for that but it is great to see faster times with dedication. I remember when we did our mile test in middle school, I though 7 minute and faster paced miles were just for the genetically gifted. It was great to see that it is possible for me to run that fast with some work. I think it was less than a month into training for my first half marathon I ran a sub 8 mile and I was so excited. Always love to see when you post a new video!

The more and more i listen to your videos the more I see how similar we are. I too, used to run 5 hour marathons because I didn't train properly. I too, quit running for 10 years. I trained almosr a full year to get a running base set. I signed up for my marathon and set my goal at four hours. In three weeks I will finally get my chance to see what i can do. You have to come run Grandma's Marathon Jane. If you enjoyed Twin Cities you'll love Duluth.

It’s like you took our call from yesterday and made a video…. It was good getting to connect with you and watch the video! Keep up the good work :-)

Great stuff Coach Jane. I hope you had a nice break and are feeling recovered and refreshed.

gunning for sub 4 in two weeks! hoping for the best! thanks for the info

Truly appreciate your thoughts. Keep up the great work!

This is such sound and realistic advice. Any runner who listens will be ready to hit some PR's!

Very insightful 💡 and unlike other videos your content is very precise! Thank you! 🙏🏼

Your videos are so helpful!! Thank you !!

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Sounds great! If only I had a professional training plan. Oh wait, there’s one in my Final Surge calendar. Thanks again. Keep putting out the informative videos. Cheers.

Simple and an awesome video and very logical!

I'm going for it october 15th at Long beach california. Nervous, but my half marathons were all at 1hr50mins and they felt good. planning on doing exactly this, opening up at a 9:20 and then turning it up a toward the end. thank you for this advice.

Ran my first marathon this year aiming for sub4, but after getting ill 2 weeks before hand, only really feeling better 2 days beforehand so thought it was never going to happen. Got through 30k in about 2:46 so was on target, but ultimately the fitness wasn't quite there after the illness and struggled the last 10k finishing 4:09. I wasn't sure if I was ever going to give it another go (at 52 I've left it quite some time to try this for the first time :) , but your video has definitely got me thinking!

Thanks Jane. Simple and clear. :D

Thank you for making this video! I hope to break 4 hours at the Monumental Marathon on 5 November 2022. I missed my chance in 2016 by 11 seconds, but an ambulance stopped the race in front of me about 600 meters from the finish, so I probably could have really done it that year. Anyways, 6 years later, I believe that I can do it in 2022!. Thanks again!

Last October I did a 1h49 half and now I am preparing for my 4th San Diego's RnR marathon. Realizing that this could indicate that I could run a 4h marathon scares me as this is about 50min faster than last year. That said I have changed a lot in my training.and life style and so far it yielded a lot of improvements in my running. I guess it will come down to a race day judgement if I go for it or take it more conservatively.

I'm running my last CIM this year, but my third, because I'm so stressed every time I have to train. But someday when I'm more experienced and have more time, I plan on doing another full and when I do, I hope to finally run a sub 4. Hoping to BQ by 50 😅if life goes according to plan🙏. Thanks for all your tips, Jane.

If you could run 10K for sub-50 mins and after approx 3 to 4 month training, for flat road course, it is very easy to run the finish time for around sub-350. But for race with some steep slop, then the fisisg time could be 5 to 10 mins more. I have run over 70 marathon, and over 60 of those are sub-4. And only 5 of those are sib-430 due to bad weather or injury before the race. And I got 5 of those are sub-330. Sub-4 Marathon is pretty easy and young guy below thirties, even without too much training, sub-4 Marathon is still possible

My half marathon was 2:10:54 2 weeks ago now planning to so a marathon in 6 months

i got the base! time to train for a sub 4 hour marathon! Running the NYC Marathon this Nov!

Giving myself 5 yrs training,will be 60 ,,,,a lot of my motivation is being fit into my 60 s but an under 4 hrs sure would be good

I have been running almost 2 years and have done a few half marathons now and been thinking i should try building towards a marathon sometime soon. Kept weekly base mileage up through the winter so far and noticed my regular mileage is higher than every marathon training plan i see starts at,and found a local small marathon at end of April that i think i wil go for. My best times are 1hr 42 half marathon, 10k at 46.46(off road and only 10k race i have done) and my recent parkrun best 5k at 20:20 so i should in theory be capable of sub 4 but at 49 years old i am very aware that if i push to hard for a time goal it could go wrong and still have a bit of fear about the step up from doing halves. It wont be as flat as most marathons either.I dont want to go as conservative as saying just finishing is the goal but think 4 1/2 is an ok aim with a push to take some off that if feeling ok late on.

Thanks, really helpful tips. I'm hoping to go for my first sub 4 after the summer. One request, I'm from Europe and there's 700 million of us over here who have no idea what a mile is..... :) So, it would be really useful to break your paces down into mins/km as well as the usual mile equivalents. This is especially revelant when talking about 5k, 10k Thanks again!

I’m a Minnesota runner too!

Hey, when you talk about pace can you have the per Mile as well as per K in future videos :-) ?

What are your thoughts on Garmin Coaching for marathon training? Just curious, do you do coaching from afar? I’ve been blessed with 5 children. I also homeschool. My time seems to be flying outta the window the more miles I add…lol I want to be sure I’m using my time effectively. I’ve been training for 6 months but don’t feel like I’m doing good enough to run my marathon in December. Maybe you can point me to a video you’ve made that would help me? I appreciate all the time you take to make these videos!!! They are super informative! I’ve gotten my tailwind and my fenix 6 off of your suggestions, I’m not disappointed!!

Is your plan really $21.95 or is that PER month?

Do the work first and don’t think about the result first.