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Marathons

unexpected

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Inspired by the tri thread, does anyone here do marathons?

I've done one 1/2 and one full. Thinking about doing more....
 

quevola

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May 3, 2009 will be my first marathon
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I wish I could, but I have a defective knee and I don't think I could get through training for one without doing some serious damage.
 

quevola

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Originally Posted by unexpected
good luck quevola! what time are you shooting for?

Thanks - I'm shooting for under 4 hours. I ran a half-marathon in January at 1:58
 

Thomas

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Originally Posted by quevola
Thanks - I'm shooting for under 4 hours. I ran a half-marathon in January at 1:58

wait - what? I thought your training times were faster than that. Am I confusing you with someone else or did you take it easy?

As for me: Second marathon this January. Ran a half in '08, and a full in '04
 

quevola

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Originally Posted by Thomas
wait - what? I thought your training times were faster than that. Am I confusing you with someone else or did you take it easy?

As for me: Second marathon this January. Ran a half in '08, and a full in '04


Yeah - you must be confusing me with someone else. I'm a novice.
 

cubsin4

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I've done three marathons; Pittsburgh (2000), Cleveland (2005), and Chicago (2006). I'm not even sure why I did more than one. The novelty has worn off at this point.
 

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I have done five full and more than a dozen half marathons Did NYC three times. This year I will do Delaware and NYC. I am as slow as molasses going uphill in the middle of a January freeze in Vermont.

The marathons provide many hours of welcome solitude. More importantly, the training, which is a *****, keeps me reasonably healthy, somewhat trimmer, and less likely to smoke.
 

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I think I enjoyed the training more than the race itself. Marathon training is a huge time commitment, and it was kind of nice being that disciplined about something.
 

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I did one in San Diego and then the last leg of an Ironman.

All in all I didn't enjoy just a flat our Marathon.
 

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