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I completed the 2010 Chevron Houston Marathon a couple of days ago, and the experience led me to this blog-post title. It was my fourth marathon (my third in Houston). I began the race with a specific goal: Complete it at or under 4:50:00. But I ended the race with a different result: I completed …
Sometimes the research that I report on this site is simply about saving you some money. As we head into 2010, here are some coupon codes to save you money on some marathons and 1/2 marathons in the new year. Having run the 2009 San Antonio Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, I now keep getting coupon …
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… and you want to support a great charity, too, then I encourage you to consider donating within the next two days to CanCare. You can sponsor my running the 2010 Chevron Houston Marathon for CanCare. My donations page is here. And time is running out on making a tax-deductible contribution in the year 2009. …
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If you have run or walked a marathon, are preparing for one, or have ever thought about completing one, then I want to introduce you to some folks to whom marathons look easy. Let me tell you a little more about them. Their preparation is intense. Their whole family usually gets involved. They often spend …
I heard about this last Sunday while participating in the San Antonio Marathon. I was part way through the route, and a female participant near me advised a third participant — an apparent friend — to use this trick to help him get through the race. Here is what she told her friend: Find a …
I am not talking about how one should properly train for a marathon by covering multiples of the marathon distance during one’s training season. And I am not talking about how the official distance of a marathon is longer than 26.2 miles — that it is actually 26.21875 miles long. No, I am talking about …
My wife and I got the above medals for completing the 2009 Rock ‘n’ Roll San Antonio Half Marathon and Marathon, respectively, this past Sunday. Each is 2.75″ in diameter. And you might have thought when you saw the title of this blog post that I wrote about how there seems to be something of …
I ask this question because of something that I saw last Saturday. I was at the expo for the San Antonio Marathon the next day, and the Rock ‘n’ Roll folks were selling finisher shirts. I bought one, but I also had an odd feeling about it. After all, I had not even started the …
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Here is a question for anyone who is not an elite runner: Do you believe that it is unethical to start near the front of a race, if you know that you will not complete the race at the pace designated for that portion of the racers? I ask this question as a follow-up to …
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I ran the San Antonio Marathon yesterday. Okay, I ran and walked it. But that was my plan all along. What was not my plan was to get a positive split. What was not my plan was to walk what felt like much of the distance from mile 19 to the finish line. And what …