You have run a marathon or two, or a moving up in distance from shorter
events, which you have been doing regularly. You now want to break through to the next level
and record some decent times in the marathon.
The most important thing here is to remember the same principles that help runners do
their first marathon and that is that it is almost entirely aerobic and requires a lot of
running mileage in order to complete the distance.
However, in addition to covering the mileage, you'll also be looking at ways in which you can improve your speed, learning
terms like VO2 and lactate threshold, and will want to learn about what the elite runners do to gain an edge.
You will soon realise that there are a thousand different sources of information available to marathon runners looking to
improve and, whilst there a common elements to most of them, there are a thousand different opinion as to what you should be doing
to get a faster marathon time.
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