With my first marathon coming up this weekend, I thought it would be fitting to share this video that has been making the rounds lately.
From the excitement of Mile 1, to the shock of Mile 5 and the despair of Mile 19, nothing’s quite like the emotional roller coaster of running a marathon. This cartoon takes a look into the mind of a first time marathon runner as he experiences everything from Runner’s High, Runner’s Trots, and hitting “The Wall,” all over the course of 26.2 miles.
Today marked the last ‘long run’ of the marathon training cycle. Long run is in quotations because since we are in taper mode, it was only 16K, less than half the distance of the run we did two weeks ago. After last weeks stormy race and the weeks wet, grey … Continue reading
Via “A whole lot of soles”
A ‘marathon taper’ edition of my weekly curation of miscellaneous articles on running:
5 Pre-Marathon Mistakes (and how to avoid them), Runner Academy
One way to help make sure you don’t jeopardize your race at the end of your preparation is to have an awareness of common pre-marathon mistakes that are often made during the taper period before your marathon, and how to avoid them.
It’s taper time: What that means for you, Canadian Running
For many of us training for a fall marathon, the arrival of October means it’s taper time. This is when we scale back training and rest up for the big day.
Let explain this taper madness and marathoning thing, A whole lot of soles
Taper madness, that two to three-week period when marathoners look to pass without major incident, is already starting to hit.
Don’t Race Like An 8 Year Old (no offense, kids!), Fix Your Run
5 pacing tips that you need to know.
Peaking for Performance: Two Weeks to Go, Running Shoe Guru
In the last two weeks before your marathon, you will need to cut your volume and intensity a bit to bring about an optimum peak. This is the time to get extra sleep, plenty of good nutrition, and run as relaxed in your workouts as possible.
Improv Everywhere traveled to Philadelphia to recreate Rocky’s epic training run through the streets of Philadelphia in real life. The video takes inspiration from the training montages in both Rocky and Rocky II, and the final sequence includes a mob of 100 kids running with Rocky up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
You can find behind-the-scenes pictures and learned how they pulled it off at the Improv Everywhere site.
I’m not exactly sure why I signed up for the Surrey International World Music Half Marathon; especially as my fall goal race, the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon is two weeks away and I should be tapering for it. But when I saw that the weekend’s long run called for a 23K anyway, … Continue reading
