Roger on Running: Fall Marathon Insights
What the ordinary runner can learn from the extraordinary fall marathon season
By Roger Robinson
As featured in the Web Only issue of Running Times Magazine
The 2011 fall marathon season has been like a series of fantasy movies. Patrick Makau, Ed Whitlock, Geoffrey Mutai and company ventured time and again beyond the limits of human capability. Digitized wizards and magic rings could not match them. The regular runners I talk to at race expos struggled to relate to it all, regarding the elites at the front of their races with awe and incomprehension, like invaders from outer space.
But wait - they are runners, too. To achieve what they do, they need supreme inherited talent, sure, but also dedicated training, proper nutrition, skillful race tactics and a lot of guts, just like the rest of us. So to summarize this historic fall marathon season, instead of analyzing the superlatives, the records, the impact on world all-time rankings, etc., I want to ask simply, what can every ordinary runner learn from these extraordinary races? Here is a selection of six lessons to be learned from six weeks of miracles.
Read on here<http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=24605>.
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