10 tips for everyone who went to the marathon or half-marathon distance

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If you do decide to participate in this marathon and beat himself, then in this article you will find a few tips that, if not guarantee you a place on the podium, then certainly facilitate your first step in this hard way. Learn about training plans, nutrition, and other subtleties you can from books or articles of famous runners, coaches and other gurus. The same material you will read about what is possible, necessary, and even necessary, to avoid so as not to discourage once and for all cravings for this insanely heavy and, at the same time, tremendous sport.

Imagine: the sun, the cool summer morning, a crowd of people dressed in sports uniforms and gomonyaschego in every way. This day is the day of your first marathon. So what are the mistakes you can make in this day?

1. Footwear. Sneakers in any case should not be new. If you bought recently, be sure to run in them, and over long distances. If the marathon to be on asphalt, prolonged exercise should be periodically carried out on a hard surface. In other leg, broken in the blood, can significantly lubricate the feeling of joy of victory.

2. Toilet paper and wet wipes. Not all toilet cubicles can be still necessary subject. When to start is just a few minutes, and all things are put into the storage chamber, an attack of "bear disease "and the lack of toiletries in a public toilet can spoil your impression of start.

3. Pins. Take home a couple of spare pins. When attaching the numbers they fall to the ground, lost or broken. Believe me, the organizers really no longer pins! Or buy a special belt for fixing the numbers. He will not come in handy again.

4. Room. If he did not initially laminated, do it before the start. You can just paste over it with tape. Rain or because of the water, which you will pour, soak number and can not just need to fix it again, wasting time and energy. And if your hands are cold, make it virtually impossible.

5. Plasters on blisters. If the day of the marathon has come, and you still have not healed callus that you even just a little bit, but feel when running, be sure to tape it plaster. Better on the basis of tissue, breathing. Take a few in his pocket.

6. The plaster on the nipples to men. Many say, without the blood are erased at the end of the race.

7. Vaseline. Favorite ointment all runners. Rub wherever rubs. Basically, it is the perineum, inner thighs, armpits, and the place of contact of hands with a T-shirt. Remember now - the car for a run, and any machine requires lubrication.

8. Girls, do not apply cosmetics, especially in the eyes and eyelashes! Superobemnye your eyelashes one still will not notice! But eye irritation from sweat mixed with makeup and dark circles under the eyes from the carcass are guaranteed (because the finish is photographed quite close).

9. Use only the tried gels and other food. One girl said that without looking at the neighbor took a gel-runner, squeezed and only then realized that this gel with the taste of tomato, which she simply can not stand. Yes, the end of the distance she could not get rid of the bad taste.

10. Run at your own pace. Resist the general euphoria to jerk forward. At first marathon ± 10-15 minutes the result is not as important. Remember, well-designed strength at a distance will allow you to finish with a winning mood, and not "ride a horse", which, bulging eyes and hanging tongue thinking about one thing: "Shoot me somebody, please! "or" I never in my life I will not run, even for a bus! "will depend on this, will the first marathon last or is it just the beginning of the conquest of new tops!

As is known, any safety advice written in blood. In the case of our instruction - we can safely say that the blood and sweat pervomarafontsev, which the author (between Incidentally, pervomarafonets himself) interviewed during the First Moscow marathon held this year 15 of September. Hopefully, these tips will help you avoid mistakes and soon, for the first time crossing the finish line, you will cry with happiness rather than pain and fatigue!