Marathon advice

In the fall of last year, I ran a 2.57 marathon and recently improved to 2.49.

This was a huge improvement over my four-hour marathons a little over a decade ago (I’m forty-two now, so I was in my late twenties then). Back then I didn’t take marathons seriously. My friend and I ran because it was kind of cool to do a marathon and brag about it. Of course, most recently I trained a lot for my sub-three-hour marathons, but this story is not about my training per se. Rather, I wanted to share more general tips.

• I strongly recommend running consistently at least for a year before…