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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''FirstFIRST'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Jack Daniels'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''SmartCoach'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Runners World'''
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| NoviceBeginner||2||3||3||1||4||3||2
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| Maintenance Novice||24||23||3||12||32||43||2
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| ImproverMaintenance ||42||42||35||21||13||24||32
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| EnthusiastImprover||5||54||3||42||1||2||23
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| Enthusiast||5||4||3||3||1||2||2|-| Elite||5||5||2||43||1||1||21
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* Beginner: A first time marathon runner with no background in speedwork or hard racing at shorter distances* Novice: A first time marathon runner, or someone who not run a marathon for some time, but has some experience of speedwork or racing at shorter distances.
* Maintenance: A regular marathon runner who is looking to keep their performance, but not intending to work hard on improving their time.
* Improver: A runner who has run several marathons and is hoping to improve their performance. An improver will have not trained hard in the past, so may have the ability to improve significantly.
* Enthusiast: This is a runner who has trained hard for marathons in the past and is looking for ways of optimizing their performance.
* Elite: A runner who is prepared to work 'as hard as it takes' to improve performance.
== [[FIRST]] (Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training) ==
