How to train for your first marathon

Life Kit

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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A running coach and athlete with a background in exercise science shares tips on building your mileage and finishing your first race injury-free.

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0:00.0	This is NPR's life kit, I'm Emily Kwong.
0:03.2	So last year, for the very first time, I ran a marathon.
0:08.4	Yeah, 26.2 miles.
0:11.4	These two feet carried me across the finish line,
0:15.2	hand in hand with my little sister Amanda,
0:18.2	who has run 10 marathons.
0:20.8	I promised her some time in my lifetime I do one with her
0:24.0	and when the pandemic hit seemed like a good opportunity to train.
0:28.0	Amanda is my best friend and kind of my running coach now.
0:32.4	She told me, Emily, you can do this.
0:35.4	Oh my god, we did it.
0:39.8	Amanda Kwong is a legend.
0:42.4	Me, one of the slowest kids in gym class,
0:45.2	is now a marathoner.
0:47.0	How many people in the world can say that?
0:50.0	I ran a few times a week before,
0:52.2	but three to four miles at most.
0:55.4	This time last year, 26.2 miles seemed impossible for us mere mortals.
1:01.2	It reminds me of that one scene in Captain America.
1:04.4	On your left.
1:05.4	Uh-huh, on my left.
1:07.0	God.
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