Can Swimming Help In Running / Marathon Training? How!

Swimming helps to improve all three of the goals of cross-training- [to improve one’s] endurance, speed, and recovery leading to improvement in one’s marathon (running) performance and is considered good training for the activity. 

How Fast Are Marathon and Ultramarathon Runners? The Average, Fastest & Slowest!

In a typical marathon, the winner will cross the line in a little over 2 hours. This means the pace they ran was around 5 minutes per mile (3 minutes per km). Ultramarathons tend to be a little slower, due to the excessive distances of those events. For a 50 mile ultramarathon, the first finishers will come in around the 5.5-hour mark, an average of 6:30/mile (4:00/km).

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