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Even for the best athletes in the world, training for a marathon is no simple feat. In any given training block, it takes months of consistent, deliberate, and flat-out hard work just to make it to the starting line.
On September 25, I will be running my fourth 26.2-mile race at the infamous Berlin Marathon. (That’s right, I’ll be following–albeit a bit further back–legends like marathon world record holder Eluid Kipchoge, American marathon record holder Keira D’Amato.) It’s my first marathon in more than three years–working toward my ultimate goal of running all six Abbott Major Marathons–and it’s been as exciting as it has been exhausting to step back into the routine of preparing to go the distance.
Even if you’ve run a marathon before, you inevitably learn a lot of lessons over the course of a 16-week training program. Like, what socks not to wear when running in crazy-high humidity (hello,…
