Next Saturday is the St. George Marathon. I am registered so I am planning on running. It will be an interesting exercise. I am now 52 years old and a few pounds the the heavy side. So how to run a marathon and survive to tell about it. Well years ago in Boy Scouts they talked about the scout walk which consisted of running for 50 steps and walking for 50 steps. I am going to do a version of this.
Run for 4 minutes walk for 1 minute. When I hit a hill I will go 50/50 and who knows what after 13 miles.
I hope to finish in 5 hours and be somewhat refreshed.
The marathon is interesting in that all participants try to help each other along in the process. It will be fun to make friends and share the experience with 7500 other people. The organization is great with school buses wisking us all away 26 miles from the finish and all of us running in.
I have done 9 St. George Marathons however I have not run one since 2001.
The dark cool morning will turn into a finish at noon and 80 degree's.
Nothing like a good challenge. I have been running every day but sunday for about a year now and
have run a few 13 mile runs. It will be fun to be part of the moving masses heading for St. George.
