What it was Like to Run my First Marathon
Marathon Training Academy
Angie and Trevor
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we reach into the podcast vault and play a recording from when Trevor ran his first full marathon. This is an entertaining look at the joy and agony a first-timer feels, especially someone who once hated running.
After two years of hard work Trevor was able to transform himself from a desk potato to a successful marathon finisher. He ran the 2011 St. Louis Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon with a finishing time of 4:31:40. He’s since completed 25 marathons and two 50ks.
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| 0:40.6 | slash mTA. Welcome to the Marathon Training Academy podcast, empowering runners like you since 2010. |
| 1:03.3 | I'm Trevor. |
| 1:04.1 | And I'm Coach Angie. |
| 1:05.4 | In this episode, we reach into the podcast vault and play a recording from when I ran my first marathon. |
| 1:10.6 | It's an entertaining look |
| 1:11.4 | at what the first marathon feels like, especially for someone who was a total non-runner. |
| 1:16.6 | Don't forget, you can get all of our back podcast episodes plus training plans and more. |
| 1:21.7 | As an academy member, just go to marathon training academy.com. |
| 1:25.7 | All right, so we are actually coming up on our 16th year anniversary of the podcast. |
| 1:30.3 | Our first episode was published February 24th, 2010. |
| 1:35.2 | That's been a minute. |
| 1:37.7 | So we thought, hey, what if we play a podcast episode from back in the day so you guys can |
| 1:43.3 | kind of hear what we used to sound |
| 1:44.8 | like. This was one of our more fun and popular episodes because I'm going to share what I was |
| 1:50.1 | feeling fresh off my first marathon and just give you a little background. I enjoyed sports all my |
| 1:56.1 | life, but I always hated to run. I would just never go out and run. I mean, who did that? |
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