Category Archives: Marathon

Is This Marathon Thing Ever Going to Be Done?

My last post about marathon training really scared me. It was August and I could barely run a few miles. I went to the doctor, got some medicine for my asthma, finally felt better and started training hardcore. (Hardcore for me is waking up at 4:45am to run, even on the weekends. It’s not running really fast or anything cool. It’s basically just being hardcore enough to wake up early and run in the dark).

 

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Marathon Training: Preparing for My 1st Half

The week following the 10K, I realized that as awful as it was, I really need to stop being depressed about it because the half marathon was happening in 5 weeks. So I needed to pick up the training. I created my own little workout plan running a few days a week with one long run that would increase to 13 miles by the half marathon.

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Running a Marathon

Running a marathon seems like a pretty solid bucket list idea, right? I would have to guess that it is one of the most universal bucket list items. This goal ended up on my list for several reasons: (1) I had begun running the year before and it gave me a significant boost in self-confidence; (2) my husband had already completed a marathon and that was pretty cool; and (3) it was 2013 and the Boston Marathon bombings had just happened.  Continue reading Running a Marathon