Bold Moves: Diary of a First Time Marathoner

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Diane is my college classmate. That being said, I enjoyed reading about Diane's decision to run her first marathon and all the training that went into it. She had a lot of good information in there for a beginning runner and it was interesting to read her thoughts on the different training runs. I wish I had had that much information when I ran my first and only marathon!

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That would likely lead to reinjury, which would only increase your frustration. She stresses that stretching should be done only after a run, when muscles are warm and relaxed. Any good athletes you see stretching before a race or game have probably already jogged for 15 or 20 minutes to warm up. If anything, the aim of training is to figure out how slowly you ought to run. Williams suggests you run the marathon at a pace that's 90 seconds slower than your usual rate.

And prepare to run the marathon at the slower pace.

Don't worry about how that will affect your overall time. Believe it or not, by training that way you may be able to run 9-minute miles during the marathon. Williams says, for example, that when Alberto Salazar was prepping for the Boston Marathon, which he won in a time of 2 hours and 8 minutes or 4: So what explains his race performance?

He did his shorter training runs at a faster pace. Training for a marathon is not a way to lose weight, Finke says, and most rookie runners will actually have to increase caloric intake -- which she's found is a particularly difficult concept for female runners to swallow. Finke says the women she trains typically hike their daily intake by to 1, calories. For men, the uptick is smaller: While it's certainly possible that rookie runners will lose weight in training, they should know that weight loss can't be a goal and that it's entirely possible to be a terrific marathoner without being a swimsuit model.

Finke says that she's trained many men and women who are bulky or overweight but can run marathons in just over 3 hours. Finke says there are three sides to marathon training: It is simply the concept that sometimes training doesn't work; sometimes you can train perfectly and just have a bad day on race day; and sometimes there are marathon conditions that you have no control over and that can undermine you.

She mentions one race in which several of her well-trained marathoners struggled to finish against mile-an-hour headwinds. In addition to slowing the runners down, the stiff winds caused muscle cramps by speeding up dehydration. Wind can evaporate sweat too rapidly, so that the body needs even more water than it normally would. No new is good new. What he means is that you shouldn't debut anything the day of the actual race.

If the race has a hill on mile 8, put a hill on mile 8 in your training. If you wear shorts and a T-shirt when you train, wear them during the race. Running shoes should also be well broken in by race time. Try to make the race as un-novel as possible.

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Going too fast too soon on race day. He tells racers to run with a watch to make sure they're going slow enough at the beginning. For first-timers, there should be only one goal: Finally, you'll be a marathoner.

You and Pheidippides, siblings under the skin. Ilan Mochari is a staff writer at Inc. Steve Costello, a former high school sprinter with a still-svelte frame and the ability to run in annual 10K races without much training, considered himself plenty healthy. But last April, when Costello learned that his cholesterol was holding at after years in the s, he began to wake up -- at 5: I like to hit the trail early and be done by 8. Why a marathon, of all things? The challenge of training intrigued Costello, whose running life to that point had focused on shorter distances.

Also, there was the solitariness of it. Costello describes himself as someone with "a DNA" for solo activities. I played football and baseball in elementary school, but I gravitated to swimming and track in high school.

Having the flexibility to pursue his sometimes-solitary agenda is part of the reason Costello founded his company of one. At Blue Sky Strategies, Costello works as a branding-and-marketing consultant to large consumer-products companies. Business hops in the first and fourth quarters, when the Goliaths have budget money to burn.