How to Run a Marathon

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Samuel Harvell and I am a personal fitness trainer and running coach. Today I'm going to talk with you about how to run a marathon. Now the standard distance for a marathon is twenty six point two miles. So if you are running a marathon say in New York City, Boston, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the distance is the same. Twenty six point two miles. The question is how do you train for a marathon. So if you are a runner who has never run a marathon before, you are a novice, you are a beginner and you want to train for your first marathon, you may want to train to just finish a marathon. You want to train well enough where you feel like you are becoming stronger as a runner to finish the marathon. So one of the main goals of running a marathon is to have a combination of both speed and endurance. The speed for marathon training comes from doing intervals on the track such as this track right here. There are other forms of speed training such as tempo running. Tempo running means that you are running at a sustained pace for a certain amount of time. And there's another form of speed called frog leg training where you are running at different speeds say for like thirty seconds, forty seconds, sixty seconds and then back down to say forty seconds and thirty seconds. So knowing how to run a marathon it depends on where you are in your fitness, it depends on where you are in terms of your time commitment to train, because training for a marathon is a time consuming process. It also depends on whether or not you are willing to train alone, or if you are willing to train with a group. So training for a marathon there is a lot involved, there's a lot that you need to know in terms of the training, your diet, cross training. Such as lifting weights, doing yoga, aqua jogging in the pool for example. So there's a lot to learn about marathon training. If you like to learn more, please contact me at Harvell fitness training dot com. That's H a r v e l l fitness training dot com."