I started a running blog, but I didn’t even document my first (and so far, only) marathon. How much sense does that make?
Looks like my last post was after the eight mile trail run… over a year ago. I’ll try to recount the last 15 months.
After two half marathons, I decided 2011 would be the year to run my first full marathon. I ran the Columbus half marathon in 2010 and loved it. The course is flat/fast, it has lots of energy from about 15k runners and 100 bands/djs along the route, and I just had a great experience. It’s also run in mid-October, which means cooler weather. With that in mind I chose Columbus for my first full marathon.
I can’t find my training schedule, but I remember it was 18 weeks long. As with most of my race training schedules, I took one I found online and adapted it to my own style (such as training four days a week, planning the long runs for Saturdays). I must have begun training in mid-June. Looking back the first few weeks of training were uneventful. First long run was 8 miles, the next week 10 miles, then I began spacing long runs out, two weeks later running a 12 miler, followed by a 14, and then the training started to get serious…
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