Have you always wanted to run a marathon? ?199 days from today the Twin Cities Marathon (TCM), dubbed the Most Beautiful Urban Marathon will be run! ?(And, the price for registering goes up tomorrow ? register today and save!) ?I qualified for the Boston Marathon the first time I ran TCM ? which was an incredible experience to accomplish in front of a home town crowd. ?I literally knew someone in the crowd cheering at every mile marker!
Is training for a marathon a lot of work ? yes. ?Can you do it ? yes! ?Mothers and Fathers who work outside the home, busy professionals, students, retired folks .. many types of people train for marathons. ?Some train simply to finish the 26.2 beast, others train to beat the personal record (PR) and others train to qualify for races like Boston, NYC or the Olympic Trials. ?A combination of strength, flexibility work and of course, running and cross training can get you to the start AND finish lines healthy. ?Another way to make the marathon experience even more meaningful is to run it on behalf of a charity. ?This year TCM has vastly increased it?s number of charity partners. ?You can run to support such charities as Research for Down Syndrome (the charity for which I am running), Bolder Options (to support at-risk youth), the American Cancer Society, Fraser (autism/developmental disabilities support), Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and many more. ?Check out TCM?s website for more details and registration info: ?Twin Cities in Motion
As always, we at Tenacity are here to support and coach you in your efforts ? whether it be to run your very first 5k, half marathon or the full marathon. ?I have run 7 full marathons, well over 20 half marathons and countless 5ks, 10ks, etc. ?I will be completing the Boston to Big Sur Challenge in a little over 3 weeks: ?racing the Boston Marathon on April 16 and then a mere 13 days later flying to California to run the Big Sur Marathon ? both very tough courses with very hilly profiles and a crazy challenge only a few runners take on each year!
Each time I draw my training cycle to a close and prepare for the taper (reduced training) prior to a race ? I read the post below that was written in one of my on-line marathoning forums. ?I think it sums up perfectly the sense of excitement you will feel as you toe the line at your race ? whether it is your first or 50th! ?Enjoy:
Training is doing your homework. It?s not exciting. More often than not it?s tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.?
?Workouts too become like this. Intervals, tempos, strides, hills. You go to the track, to the bottom of a hill, and your body finds the effort. You do your homework. That?s training. Repetition?building deep habits, building a runner?s body and a runner?s mind. You do your homework, not obsessively, just regularly. Over time you grow to realize that the most important workout that you will do is the easy hour run. That?s the run that makes everything else possible. You live like a clock.
?After weeks of this, you will have a month of it. After months of it, you will have a year of it.
?Then, after you have done this for maybe three or four years, you will wake up one morning in a hotel room at about 4:30am and do the things you have always done. You eat some instant oatmeal. Drink some Gatorade. Put on your shorts, socks, shoes, your watch. This time, though, instead of heading out alone for a solitary hour, you will head towards a big crowd of people. A few of them will be like you: they will have a lean, hungry look around their eyes, wooden legs. You will nod in their direction. Most of the rest will be distracted, talking among their friends, smiling like they are at the mall, unaware of the great and magical event that is about to take place.
?You?ll find your way to a tiny little space of solitude and wait anxiously, feeling the tang of adrenaline in your legs. You?ll stand there and take a deep breath, like it?s your last. An anthem will play. A gun will sound.
Then you will run.
Source: http://tenacityfitnessmn.com/?p=348
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