Fun?
It shouldn’t
surprise you to learn that running a full marathon (26.2 miles) is harder on a
person than running half that far (a
half-marathon). You probably also would expect that, although full-marathon runners train more than half-marathoners,
they feel disproportionately crappier at the end of their race. My personal experience was that at the end of
a “halfathon” I wanted to wait around and see whom I had beaten (if anyone),
whereas after a ”fullathon” all I wanted
to do was sit down and drink beer. And
this was true, no matter how many miles I had run in preparation.
Well, it
turns out I should have burned some of those training hours in a weight
room. A scientific-sounding study
conducted in Spain indicates that building leg muscles by means of weight
training is beneficial – extremely so. I
don’t recall conspicuously bulging thigh muscles on any of those Kenyans that
win all the important races these days, but maybe I just don’t know what to
look for.
I have a
relative who runs marathons – runs them well, in fact. Maybe she should look into this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/well/move/what-half-marathons-teach-us-about-running-a-marathon.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront
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