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Personally I love to barrel down technical rocky descents in trail running - feet are dancing ALL directions - I really thinks this helps (but of course if you fall whilst doing said barrelling it won’t be pretty 😅)
I'm glad my need to have 2737362638 hobbies has come in handy. Running, walking, jump-training, weightlifting, doing 10 mins of skipping couple times a week. I get bored with any one activity done too frequently. I'm glad that might actually pay off hahaha
Really work on strengthening with weights your quads and glutes. Start with body weight and progress with appropriate heavier loads. There’s a ton of videos on it. It worked for me 😊
resistance, calisthenics, and gymnastic training are such a huge bonus for any age of runner but especially as we get into the more senior age group... AVOID heavy weights!!!
Thanks Sally! I'm an assistant manager at a Sober Living Environment, and I recently lost a client from an overdose 😔. He was to turn 30 years old in July, so in his honor and to find closure for myself, I jogged 30.8 miles a few days ago. May he rest in peace 🕊️. "Dream Big!!! Run Hard!!!"
I ran my first marathon, first any race actually, at 63. I’m 70 and plan another marathon the day after tomorrow. Gonna be 80 degrees when I finish and it’s been unusually cool here, I haven’t trained in any kind of heat. Yep I’ve had planter fasciitis and I do my therapy before getting outta the bed, after every run, and before bed every single day. It’s working. And, yeah, more rest days than most training plans include. Warm ups and stretching every single run, and some every morning and every evening. Started doing tri’s a couple years ago, a couple half Ironman distances, less brutal then marathons. Basically, I’ve been doing everything suggested here and things are going great. Great advice.
First, LSD training and events are the worst thing you can do if you're interested in health, fitness and longevity. So, make sure you're clear on why you're training for a marathon. Now if you're slow you got to put in the work. It takes time. If you're older it might be to late. There's some really good advice down below about not moving to a longer race until you can hit a particular time in a shorter distance only the times are a little generous. This is the problem w/ this run, walk, run thing. It enables people who aren't ready for a distance to attempt it.
Walking is great training. Faster is good, but whatever keeps things in Z2. I often walk the first and/or last mile of my runs and even did most of my training for Boston in ‘23 with all walking because I tore a hamstring on January 2nd. It is the best possible cross training.
65 years old male. I "run commute" to work 4 flat miles (1 hour) and 4 home once per week. The other 4 days I "bike commute": 20 minutes. I'm trying to increase my"run commute" to 2 days a week.
I don't know if they are using the same course--I just looked at the Paris Marathon elevation map, and man it has a lot of hills including long steep hills.
Just DNF my first race. It was an 18.12 mile challenge. I hit 12 miles and just couldn’t do it. I cried! Today I’m very sore for someone who didn’t finish lol.
