Lessons from My New Year’s Day Marathon
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I thought it would be a good way to begin 2021 by race-walking a marathon (26.2 miles). I trained for it for about 6 months. I had finished seven marathons previously, from 1998 to 2019. This marathon was different in several major ways. First, because of Covid-19, I was not sure that we would actually