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Comment preview: How can the human body even manage this without serious breakdown and long term damage? **EDITED:** The guy below has posted a link to a couple that did 366 marathons. He-- and several of the articles-- refers to them "running" these marathons. And when I ....
Comment preview: So to get into the 2016 Boston Marathon you'll need to run a sub 3:05 (or 3:35 if you're a female) marathon by about September of this year. Most marathons occur in the Spring (aka right now) or fall (Oct timeframe). If you started a standard 18 week marat ....
Comment preview: I get that you're inspired - and it's terrific. But a marathon is a monster commitment if you want to do it right. I recommend you spend the next 6-8 months learning to run a la C25K, and just building a base. Long distance running is not for everyone. ....
Comment preview: I just want to note a few things about Ragen's running in comparison to other runners. * Fauja Singh, the world's oldest marathoner, ran a marathon of 8:11, at the age of 100. * The average marathon finishing time for females was 4:44 last year * The femal ....
Comment preview: I'm about 1 month away from doing my first marathon. Here's how I did it. * 2010: Realize I'm a fat fuck. Beat my depression and start running. Doing couch-to-5k program and can barely "run" for 60 seconds at a time. * 2011: Kinda forgot about running ....
Comment preview: > aiming for a goal of 3:15h. Might I suggest that for your first marathon, that your goal should be to finish it and not to have a specific time as a goal. By all means go ahead and take a easy sunday afternoon pace. Then AFTER you have finished a mar ....
Comment preview: I like the phrasing of your question, "harboring notions". It sounds like you think the world has been lying to you about marathons? Honestly, training for one marathon and then never running again is probably not going to do much for you other than give ....
Comment preview: I can only tell you what I tell everyone else about the marathon - nobody runs the marathon cause it's easy. Nobody runs it because it feels good. You run it because for some reason or another you NEED it. Wanting it isn't even enough, you have to need it ....
Comment preview: Marathons and ultras are so different they might as well just be thought of as different sports. I'd rather run a 100 than a marathon, personally. Road hurts, dirt is gentler. Marathons have you running just shy of the aerobic threshold to be competitive. ....
Comment preview: I remember running by her a couple years ago at a race I was also in. She was running the half and I was in the full marathon... For the first 11ish miles, the half marathon followed the same course as the full. I had been catching up and passing a lot of ....
Comment preview: Running a marathon isn't as romantic as people make it out to be. It's many many many weeks of running and your effort will be measured in the millimeters of rubber that you wear off the bottom of your shoes. I'd argue that getting through the length and ....
Comment preview: If anybody is curious, the post references a Running Times article (incorrectly identified as a Runners World article). Here is the excerpt and link: > **Best Adventures in Race Certification Blooper** > Presented by the Amelia Earhart Society > ....
Comment preview: Running a marathon. I went from being not able to run for more than a minute to completing a marathon in about 6 months. Edit:I've going to copy/paste to a few people as I've has a few replies asking me about my running program. [Running FAQ](https://www.r ....
Comment preview: "Are you a runner? I run once or twice a week. I don t run for sport. I don t do a lot of 5Ks or marathons, but sometimes for charity." No one with any experience in running would mention 5K and marathon in the same sentence. I am just your garden variety ....
Comment preview: >Watching myself slowly becoming something resembling an overweight Tyrannosaur, one day I just I "Forrest-gumped" it and started running. Since then I've done a bunch of marathons, one half-ironman, a couple sprint triathlons, and a variety of 10ks, 5k ....
Comment preview: "Congratulations, you just ran a marathon! What are you going to do next?" "NEVER RUN AGAIN." "Uhh... you know, you could keep running regularly and you might show improvement. You might be able to run faster and longer by the time the next marathon comes ....
Comment preview: Just over a year ago, right at the end of August 2011, I decided I needed to lose weight and start running seriously. I had been running over the summer, but only a couple times a week. I would "run" for 2 miles, but really I was running the first mile and ....
Comment preview: Dude if your running a half marathon and or training for one your leg muscles shouldnt have exploded I dont want to make you feel bad But 73 days of training for a half marathon with proper diet and everyday running Would result in a lot more than a 9 poun ....
Comment preview: Really over 3.5 years, there was a lot of different stuff going on. Started off walking, worked up to running, then went to the gym a few times a week. Big turning point when I signed up and trained for my first half marathon! I ended up signing up for a m ....
Comment preview: Not forgetting comedian and film star Eddie Izzard - On 27 July 2009, with only 5 weeks' training and no significant prior history of running, Izzard began seven weeks of back-to-back marathon runs (with Sundays off) across the UK to raise money for Sport ....
Comment preview: I don't understand this mindset of saying how slow runners are ruining the spirit of the marathon. To me the spirit of running and marathoning is self improvement. While it is nice to beat others nothing beats the feeling of a well deserved PR. Some people ....
Comment preview: So many anecdotal stories in here about the benefits to the knees that running causes that are no better than the anecdotal evidence of the opposite. Here's the science about why running DOES have a positive impact on the knees: Running can harm the knees ....
Comment preview: Ok, so here it goes... Everyone is different, what works for me *may not* work for you. I broke 2:30 in my second marathon at 20 years old (after only 1.5 years of taking running seriously, and 10 months after running my first marathon in the 2:50s)... I'm ....
Comment preview: Oh, that attitude is rampant on Tumblr SJW and has been for a long time. It's one of the attitudes that grates the most for me - people not willing to OWN their damn choices. Say there's a marathon on. Some people decide to train and run for it, others d ....
Comment preview: Walking - 50 Calories per 100 lbs body weight per mile. For her over 150 Calories a mile. Running - about 70 Calories per 100 lbs body weight per mile. For her, 200 Calories a mile or more. EDIT: for Ragen, a walked marathon is conservatively 4,000 Calor ....
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