How long does it take the average person to finish a marathon?

 

Answer: Average people don’t finish marathons – Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man

 

March 2018 update:  3 more slow finishes.  Easier my first time thru 50, achieving Maniac Titanium – every experience was new.

Work, twice/day TRAINING, weekend TRAVEL, repeat.  Four more 50 mile/weeks – lotta distance every work week.  Body & spirit tired, struggling with BALANCE.  Journey, not a Sprint.  50 States x2 tally now 26; THREE months ‘til Bighorn.

 

Milestones:

• February 24th – FIFTH marathon w/ Sis (Indy, StL, Dublin, Hawaii & Phoenix)
• March 4th – UK Run Challenge FLIP.  Once 63.7 miles, now 8.7 miles ahead – first time all YEAR.
• March 6th – Knysna Forest Marathon, South AFRICA (race date: July 7th – registered for my FIFTH continent)

 

April MANTRA:  SHED the WEIGHT

March 30^th (Leesport PA) thru May 6^th (Holyoke MA), my first 6 week marathon stretch since 2015.   BIG Highlight: São Paulo BRAZIL.  LARGEST city in SOUTH AMERICA – super excited to tag a new CONTINENT, first week of April.

New places, new faces.  Haven’t repeated a marathon yet – 111 unique runs.

 

Race ReCap:  3 marathons, 3 states, 3 different time zones: George Washington’s Birthday Marathon (Greenbelt Maryland), Phoenix Marathon (Arizona) & Acadiana’s Zydeco Marathon (Lafayette Louisiana).

Marathoning Streak:  52 months

Mileage ReCap:  ended March at 543.6 miles (HALFWAY thru GOAL)

 

 

Lands End to John O’Groats

1083 miles, the length of Britain

GOAL: 15 June 2018

 

Ended Month 3 in Sheffield, county South Yorkshire (name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through the city).

After the Norman conquest of England, Sheffield Castle was built to protect the local settlements, and a small town developed that is the nucleus of the modern city.  By 1296, a market had been established at what is now known as Castle Square, and Sheffield subsequently grew into a small market town.

 

In the 14th century, Sheffield was already noted for the production of knives, as mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, and by the early 1600s it had become the main centre of cutlery manufacture in England outside London, overseen by the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire.  From 1570 to 1584, Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Sheffield Castle and Sheffield Manor.