You Can Do This

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Training for Your First Marathon—You Can Do This

By Grace Joyal

Published July 25, 2011

For most people, the decision to run a marathon serves as the ultimate test of physical endurance, but for Tracy Eldred, it was more of a social calling.

After months of debate, she decided to take on this monumental challenge after three friends from her Chapel Hill, N.C., social circle convinced her to “take a leap.”

And that leap of faith paid off. The 40-year-old mother and former biology teacher successfully ran the Vermont City Marathon in Burlington, Vt., in May.

“If I was doing it on my own, I doubt I would have ever done a marathon,” she said.

Before the marathon, Eldred said she had run seriously for about three years, but had never attempted a run anything even close to what she encountered in Vermont.

“After the half marathon mark, I had that ‘uh-oh’ moment,” she said. “It’s one of the most difficult things besides childbirth that I’ve ever done.”

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