The first long run of our San Francisco Marathon training

Posted By Hup | March 28, 2009

This has been our first official week of training for the San Francisco Marathon that we’re running on July 26, which also means that today (Saturday) was the first ‘long run’ that Stephanie and I had to knock out together. You see, when you’re training for a marathon you pretty much run some lighter, high-speed runs during the week (we ran all 3-milers this week) and you then put your legs to the test and get them prepped for some serious pavement pounding by running the higher distance ‘long runs’ on Saturdays. You then finish up the week with an hour of cross-training on Sunday, which means that you get some type of workout in that’s not running. These workouts are usually something like riding a bike, playing basketball or even walking.

This week seemed to go pretty smooth as we were both already running on a regular basis, but just like our training program says, “This might seem easy now, but enjoy your rest now because you’ll be wishing you had it in a few weeks“. I guess that I should take their advice and just be happy with the fact that I’m not really killing myself yet and get mentally prepared for the week where we’re supposed to run 40 miles. Whoa.

Today we knocked out a 6 mile run (see the route above or here online) pretty easily and even though I have a little faster pace than Stephanie, we have decided that we’re both going to do this entire San Francisco Marathon (both training and the marathon itself) together. I’ll tell you what, it’s pretty awesome that I have an amazing fiancee’ like Stephanie that enjoys fitness, being healthy and staying competitive. It really makes me happy to know that we’re going to run this whole thing together and I have a feeling that this is just going to be just the first of many marathons and other races that we ‘re going to be running together. Yeah, that makes me really, really happy.

One of the highlights of the run today was that fact that a bird pooped on Stephanie’s shoulder literally 2 blocks from where we started our run. She freaked out a little bit when it happened, but after mile 2 or so she was pretty cool with it. Hey, if we’re going to be marathon runners we have to get used to being subjected to the elements, right? Even if the elements happen to be bird poo that lands on your shoulder. :)


If you see the bird that did this, please let us know

After we finished up running today we wanted to give a quick video update of our progress, which we are going to do at least once a week. Check out the video below or over here on YouTube to get the scoop. Also, if you’ve ever ran a marathon or plan on running one soon, feel free to leave us some tips in the comments below.

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    1. Marathon training update: the big 2-0 is now behind Steph! : Hup and Steph on July 6th, 2009 8:04 am

      [...] to do something really cool together before we get married” sort of thing.  If you recall we posted a video of our first “long weekend run” on our blog towards the beginning of the training.  [...]

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