How'd you prepare? I'm thinking I want to do a 5K first, then half marathon and then full marathon.
Honestly I didn’t prepare correctly for the marathon. I more or less trained for the half. I just said fukk it I’m doing the whole thing. I been running 9-10 miles 2-3 days a week, and my shorter distance like 2 miles I’ll try to sprint those. And for strength training, I use my light weights, and bands for lunges, and squats, and stuff. But training for the marathon I should’ve been running longer distances like 18-19-20 miles.
But if you’re going to start with the 5k. I would just focus on your breathing, getting your heat rate under control, and just running at a pace where you can complete it. The speed will come, once you get that breathing down, and that running technique.
When I first started running 9-10 miles, it was tough, but I just tried to run a little further past the spot I stopped at the previous day, until I eventually could just run it, then it becomes the same thing as the 5k. Get your breathing under control, run at a pace where you can run it all the way through the speed comes.
I am in no way an elite runner or anything, but I just put on my music and lock in.
Only other things, get some good shoes, water bottle, and put Vaseline on the bottom of your feet for blisters, and on your nipples, that chaffing shyt hurts
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