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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I'm really tempted to try a full at Denver in October. I've got an employee who runs them, though, and he scares me a little with all of his training and stuff. However, he actually runs them fast, which is a key difference between him and me.
The weekend before I ran at Vail, he did the Leadville Marathon. Wanna see a crazy climb? Check this out:
You go up 2,000 feet in the first 6 miles, which isn't as tough as Vail, but then you go back down and head for the Steep Hill. Starting at Mile 10, you go up another 2,000 feet in 3 miles, ending up at over 13,000 feet. That's just plain ugly. My employee said that coming down was also really hard if you didn't want to fall and kill yourself, because it's on loose rock.
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Most races will let you switch from the full to the half or vice versa up until like the day before, so you could probably just register for the half, train for the full and see how you feel. And you can just tell everyone you're running the half so there's no pressure
Don't get too discouraged, though, if the training gets tough. I've trained for 2 marathons (one got cancelled
) and still never finished a 20 mile training run. Before I ran the KC Marathon, the longest training run I did was an 18, and that was pretty rough. Then I breezed through the race and never hit the wall. I even beat my goal by 9 minutes.
It's amazing what a taper, carb loading and a cheering crowd can do for your performance.