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Couch to Crutches in 7 Weeks - How to Not Train for a Half Marathon

This, my friends, is a guide to how NOT to train for a half marathon. There are plenty of books, articles and training plans about how you SHOULD train for a long run but very few, if any, that tell you how NOT too, that is where I come in. Whats my background in running? Very, very little, which I feel, in this case, makes me a qualified expert in the field of not knowing a damn thing about training for a running event. So, in an effort to verify the knowledge of the experts, and to see if what they say carries any amount of validity, I decided to knowingly break all the rules behind training for a 13.1 mile run in regards to both science and common sense, all in the name of research of course.

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gabriele
gabriele
Oct 30, 2021

You had the best looking pair of crutches to lean on there at the end though! 😉 Truly looks like they were holding you up. Keep them around for the next one.

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HotRod29591
Oct 21, 2021

Hahaha, what a great account of your racing experience. The look on your face crossing the finish line says it all. Winning races is overrated, it's finishing that counts. The winners are like gunfighters, there's always some young cat in the next town waiting to send you to boot hill. Congratulations Charlie.

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Charlie Weisel
Charlie Weisel
Oct 21, 2021
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thanks for reading, I’m glad you enjoyed it! And believe me, I have no desire to “win”, I’m totally content with just finishing….although I would like to at least beat the competitors under the age of 12 and over the age of 90….which I am currently incapable of doing…haha!

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