How To Run a 2:47 Marathon, Hack Your Endurance and Recover Quicker | Will Goodge
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How did William Goodge discover his passion for ultra‑endurance running?
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Will Gooch, welcome to Untapped. Great to be here, Spencer. Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure. We've we've wanted to interview you for ages. I follow your stuff. I'm an avid fan of the stuff that you've done. Uh love the records that you hold, pay close attention to them, and and have genuinely found you to be a very interesting character for ages. So delighted that you're here. Thank you very much. It's good to be here. I'd say that you're a very good runner, of course. So when did you realise that you had
It would have been when I ran Jonah Groats to Land's End. But actually, even saying that, that was in 2019. I didn't feel like I was talented at r at running, but I realized what I was willing to give to complete a goal. So I think that that was the switch for me. And then I'd probably say I felt like I was a a good runner. It was probably r after I ran across the US. Because that was that was pretty full on. I also had said I was gonna do it in I think sixty six days and ended up doing it in fifty-five. So I outdid my own expectation and I was like, Okay, there might be something here where I can continue to push and even aim for like bigger goals, maybe going for records, beating uh ones that are already standing, that kind of thing.
So
So I see long distance endurance events like that and say running a fast marathon or a very fast five K as kind of almost different sports. Yeah. I'd agree. You're you're also a fast runner. Your your marathon P B is two forty seven. Yeah. And you did that in London this year, I saw you at the finish line. Yeah, yeah. Talk me through how you become a a better runner. So Not to take away from incredible achievements like running across Australia, running across America. You know, I think we we understand that that is is gritty, requires a lot of mental resilience and fortitude to just stick with it. Well, it you know, a certain kind of person can do that, but running a very fast marathon requires a lot of sustained effort, work, a plan.
And you know, it's very difficult to go completely off piste or to completely avoid what you should be doing and still achieve the goal. Yeah. How did you become
fast? I think a lot of it would have been the foundational stuff from having run thousands of miles every year for Well, in the past nine now, but even before that, like I've done a few sub threes now. I think you can't rush into thinking you're gonna be fast straight away. There's very few people that end up doing that. Ben Ben Felton, one guy, obviously already kind of looked built for running when he got into it. Hugo Fry is another one, psycho, love the guy. But I think you have to allow a period of years if you want to be fast in a marathon distance, because you need those foundations to be able to build from s and then add the speed work in that's really gonna tune yourself up. But your body has to be ready and available to be running sixty plus miles a week.
I would say if you're wanting to do a sub three, I think you need that kind of volume and also be doing like one to two speed sessions a week in there as well.
And I mean, we're talking sub three, your sub two fifty, so two forty seven, so Well, a two forty five is a uh three fifty-four average pace, something like that. So if I'm not mistaken, you ran thirty-four K at sub four minute Ks. Uh that to put it into perspective is, you know, m six and a half, sub twenty minute five Ks. Yeah. You know, it's it's it's it's good running. Do you follow A strict plan. For that one I did. How never how long how long were you in a block for?
Well, the thing the thing about the London Marathon for me was I'd come off of Australia finishing in May and then I took the rest of the year off. And you understand when you do these big challenges, it's all it's kind of a traumatic situation to go through. Your body is just ev all systems are down. So I have to take that amount of time off. And then I got into a marathon block and I started at the end of January. So it wasn't a big block. But I think I needed to give myself that period of rest.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did William Goodge discover his passion for ultra‑endurance running?
0:02–5:41
2
What training foundations helped him achieve a 2:47 marathon PB?
5:41–10:52
3
Why does he use the “five‑minute rule” to get out the door for a run?
10:52–16:11
4
How does he structure weekly mileage and speed work for back‑to‑back marathons?
16:11–21:58
5
What recovery tools (sleep, binaural beats, ice baths) does he rely on?
21:58–26:48
6
How does he turn grief over his mother’s loss into running motivation?
26:48–31:26
7
What challenges and controversies arose during his Mission America 50‑marathon attempt?
31:26–37:31
8
What are his thoughts on balance, drinking, smoking, and living an “extreme” life?
37:31–41:03
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