The Marathon

The Marathon is beautiful in its simplicity. There are no shortcuts for running twenty-six miles, no potent pill to make the miles glide by more easily, no trendy diet to inject your thighs with boundless energy, no secret strategies to trim precious seconds from your pace, no high tech shoes to minimize the miles required to build a solid aerobic base.

There is only your body and what you have conditioned it to endure through months of training, though long runs and recovery days, both fast and slow, day after day, week after week, in heat and in cold, in rain and in wind and the heat of a blazing sun, pushing yourself through one limitation after another. 

There's only one way to make it to the finish line. Put one foot in front of the other, commit your time, tick off the miles, and string together a series of challenging workouts, fighting your way though good days and bad, until you're strong enough to tackle the entire course.

It's simple. It's beautiful. And if you can make it to the end, it will be one of the most amazing experiences of your life.

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