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You can't do any of these examples in one month. Impossible to train a marathon without injuries in one month. Can't write a good book in one month (unless you'
by mtw 10y ago
You can't do any of these examples in one month. Impossible to train a marathon without injuries in one month. Can't write a good book in one month (unless you've been preparing for it in the past year). Code a game yes. But that's assuming you have a fair amount of experience
My challenge would be to clean up diet. That's doable.
- zimpenfish 10y ago> Impossible to train a marathon without injuries in one month. I disagree - I think a lot of people could manage a slow marathon (~6-8h, basically walking pace) without more than a month of training.
- mtw 10y agoIt is not impossible. Yes, you can find people who can do it. By luck, you could have someone with very high determination and who has a good athletic base, even though they haven't trained recently. Is it a challenge anyone can take? No. I don't know of any training plan made to make you run a marathon in one month. The most aggressive training plans are 12 weeks minimum (3 months), and that's for people who are already fit. For those who are not used to running, the most realistic is 26 weeks
- zimpenfish 10y agoAgain, you'd have to define "run". Do you mean sub-4h? Sure, I'd agree it was wildly unlikely a normal person[1] could manage that in a month. Personally I ran a 5h30 marathon (solo, carrying water+food, half-trail) without following a training plan at all - went from 1k to 13k to 21k to 42k in 15 weeks. By no stretch of any loose definition was I "already fit". [1] people who don't already have a certain level of fitness. [Edit: corrected 14 to 15 weeks after checking calendar]