"I did a marathon cold. It was easy." (Read 1578 times)

Back in high school a few of us that ran decided at the last minute to run the NYC marathon when they ran the race 4 times around central park. I think it was 1972. We had finished our cross country season, but we were running alot of miles back then. But it sure did hurt and screwed up the indoor track season. We all got hurt during that year. Marathons overrated races.

I had a friend of mine in the Army who wasn't a runner at all (he was a swimmer at Uconn) who ran Boston on a whim with no problems. It can be done but it helps to be 22 and in great shape.

A couple of years ago, my wife & I went on a vacation to Boston...while there, she ran a 10K in Boston. My MIL (her mother) kept telling everyone that my wife ran the Boston Marathon.

That is funny! Related to that, our local newspaper just did a story about a local woman who had lost 40 lbs running and mentioned she ran "marathons." I was interested until I finished the story and it only said she was doing 5Ks. What was funny is that I'm doing my first half at the same race in which she is doing her next 5K. My hope is that the newspaper was interchanging the terms and not her. Just racing and losing 40 lbs is great - no need to embellish.