How to fight for marathon (Ⅱ)

4.        Set and adjust your speed.

    One important trick of marathon is that you should be strategic on how to control your speed. Running too fast at the beginning must ruin you while running at a reasonable speed can facilitate you to reach the finishing line. You must be conscious of the key significance of setting your speed and try hard to master it.

5.       Speed training

    If it is your first marathon, there is no need for you to do speed training. The target for you at this first level is to struggle to complete the whole process. But if you have already reached this level, you are supposed to add speed training to your plan. Fartlek running is a good speed training approach, which means you should combine fast running and slow running together. For example, run slowly first and then run fast for 20 to 30 minutes and afterwards slow down again.

6.       Race experience

    Before your first marathon, you’d better take participate in some running races. Racing experiences can provide you a lot of tricks and skills such as how to warm up, how to adjust your space, how to drink and how to eat, how your shoes fit you, which can be the most helpful way to help you avoid any mistakes in your marathon.

7.       Right before the game, relax.

    After an intensive training, you have been prepared to take the challenge. All you need now is relaxtion. It is suggested that you should decrease your running distance to 50% in the 2 weeks before the marathon and just do some simple exercises in the last 2 to 3 days. During this relaxing time, your body can get the maximum regeneration and give you the best condition for the event.

Getting prepared for a marathon is an experience you would not trade for anything; even though it is tough,it is rewarding. Once you win this challenge, you will be more brave, diligent, persistent ,and above all, be healthy.