Marathon Training For Fitness

The first thing you should know about marathon training is that it is probably harder than the actual marathon. In a marathon, you run and you finish and you’re done for the year or six months, or whatever, until memories of the agony fade and you decide to go for it again.

No, marathon training is much worse. It is a daily torture that you push yourself through, running the allotted miles each day, trying to increase them every week, pushing your body to the limit.

If you really want to be serious about preparing yourself for a marathon, you will be up early in the morning and out running before you even down a cup of coffee, oh, but wait, while you are in marathon training, there is no longer a cup of coffee on your morning menu! Nope, it’s orange juice, water or milk. As if jogging around the track for two hours in the wee hours of the morning, you also have to change your entire diet.

No more sugar for you while you are preparing for the big race. No more sodas, candies and basically everything that made living worth while, you are in marathon training. Suddenly you find yourself looking for proteins and counting the grams of fat that you consume, refusing that latte at Starbucks, going for a wheat grass shake instead. Marathon training changes your outlook on the world, let me tell you!

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