Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom is an endurance animal. She does three-day events like the Susan G. Komen three-day walk.
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My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.
I love to run, but training can be hard, especially with a family and a crazy travel schedule. I often do sprints with my kids, where they bike and I run along side them so we can 'race' each other for a quarter-mile or shorter repeats.
I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.
A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.
My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles.
I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.
I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.
I've been a runner a long time. When I first got into it, I started doing small triathlons in Chicago, and I just did it to get in shape. When I got out of college, I put on a few pounds like everybody does. I did it when I was in my early 20s, but I never really did any long runs.