Whats your Collapse Point?

Posted by eyestrain on August 10, 2009

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One boring night while browsing google around for any interesting article about running, I stumbled upon Baldrunner’s website. He has a writeup w/c talks about Collapse Point. Based on Baldrunner’s research, Collapse Point is the point along the marathon race where you hit your “Wall”. This term was made famous by Dr John Wagner of the Honolulu Marathon Association.

While the formula for calculating your personal collapse point would be:

(Get your total mileage for 60 days) divide by 20 = Collapse point

or to put it easier, get your weekly mileage, then divide your weekly mileage by 7, multiply the result by 60 then divide it by 20 equals your Collapse point.

After reading this article it was both good news and bad news for me. Good news is that I came to a realization on how I can improve my weekly and long term training program. While Bad News is I still have a looooooooong way to go to reach my 1st marathon.

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thanks to Baldrunner’s website for his article about Collapse Point. =)

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