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One of my employees ran the Honolulu Marathon last December. My DW and I love visiting the islands, and I have been thinking of giving the marathon a try. After some recent health issues were resolved, I've started going to the gym again. In all honesty, I am terribly out of shape, and overweight by about 25% or so. My docs have told me I need to get into shape, and of course I agree that I need that, but I need to have a pretty specific and even aggressive goals. A soft goal like exercising to "get into shape" doesn't motivate me enough. That's where the idea for a marathon came up...it is an aggressive goal with a tangible sense of achievement when it is done.
The marathon is in early December, so I would have about 7 months to prepare for it. So I have a few questions for all of you distance runners:
1) when you run a marathon, do you normally monitor your heart rate? If so, do you keep it at 85% of max, or less?
2) As I am very out of shape (but working on that), is it reasonable to assume that one could prepare to run a marathon in 7 months? (from scratch??)
3) If you only have 1.25-1.5 hours per day to train, how would you approach training for an event that will span several hours (I'm guessing 5-6 hours for the first try, given I'm starting at a pretty low level of fitness).
Any other suggestions?
R
The marathon is in early December, so I would have about 7 months to prepare for it. So I have a few questions for all of you distance runners:
1) when you run a marathon, do you normally monitor your heart rate? If so, do you keep it at 85% of max, or less?
2) As I am very out of shape (but working on that), is it reasonable to assume that one could prepare to run a marathon in 7 months? (from scratch??)
3) If you only have 1.25-1.5 hours per day to train, how would you approach training for an event that will span several hours (I'm guessing 5-6 hours for the first try, given I'm starting at a pretty low level of fitness).
Any other suggestions?
R