Run with Mickey and Minnie Mouse: Disneyland Half-Marathon
Participate in an event/Running event (half marathon or marathon)
What better way to spend your Labor Day weekend than running with Mickey and Minnie Mouse? Yes, the mice will be scurrying about at ...
oh my gosh! when is this? How fun! I am doing the disney in florida, the full, where you get to m...
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Massage after Marathon
congrats!! if you've managed to complete a marathon, your body most definitely deserves a massage! not only will you feel great, it will help those overworked tissues relax & recover that much fast ...
After long training runs and after my first and only marathon run, I used to sit in an ice bath (...
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Running For the Finish Line
So, supposedly, if you can run 30 minutes without stopping you should be able to train for a marathon. This is what I had read, so I talked to a friend of mine who had run in a couple marathons. She w ...
I think that if a person starts to train for a marathon after they've been able to run for 30 min...
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Thomas Jefferson on walking
... were invented, but plenty were already in place for centuries. Weight- lifting, shotputting, polo, marathon running and rowing were all known to him. And yet, he felt walking was the best. He was con ...
Marathon
I was trainning last fall to run the Disney Marathon the first week in January, but the combination of a busy academic schedule and physical problems (plantar fasciitis and shin splints) led to me dis ...
Required time is 3:30
... y long run of 18 miles 2 weeks before my marathon and then tapered until race day. I completed the marathon running all the way, albeit slowly after mile 20. My buddies owed me lunch.
While livin ...
Running a marathon is very satisfying for me. Obviously, the training provides benefits:
Keep...
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Great Info About Marathoning!
Runner's World has a great series of articles in their recent "Marathoning 101" section. Marathon coaches measure success not by how many runners they get to the starting line, but by how many of the ...
I am concerned, though, because I don't think that many runners spend enough time in training bef...
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Learn from Others' Critical Mistakes
A few friends of mine recently competed in the 2007 Boston Marathon, running for 26.2 miles in record-breakingly crappy weather. Luckily, the heavy rain had subsided by race morning, leaving them only ...
Marathon Runners Slowing Down
I read in Competitor magazine that the number of three hours and below marathons has declined since 1979. Based on the Boston Marathon, in 1979 50.8% of the marathoners were below the 3 hour mark whi ...
it's time to start running
My friend Karen ran a marathon. My friend Stacy watched people run a marathon (recently in NYC) and called me to say she wanted us to train to run one as well. Eventually, I would do this at some poi ...
