An account of the reasons that push people into marathon races
While watching runners opt for huge distances in marathon meets, one wonders how they find the motivation to do it, and the ultimate answer they think of might be like this, 'they have always been found of running, which prompted them to opt for distance
running'. At the start of their running career, not all people are equally enthusiastic about the sport, as sometimes, they are pure incidents that bring them into marathon meets. This article is determined to discuss some real life examples of this phenomenon.
The first reason for people that do not have an inherent interest for distance running is their obsession with staying fit or a physician advice that pushes them into it. For instance, there are numerous examples when people, after having suffered from car
accidents, in order to regain the strength of their legs, started running.
The idea was to opt for a sustained exercise that may help their damaged body parts to recover fast. Besides accident sufferers, there were those who had been suffering from low capacity of their lungs to breath in ample amount of oxygen properly, and their
lungs also needed some sustained exercise that may enable them to live a healthy life. Initiating with the running activity, albeit, with the permission and under the guidance of trained and qualified coaches, has benefited sufferers a lot.
Now, once they had been into running, running even for a few meters was no less than an achievement for them. However, with the passage of time, they went on to build their capacity and things started to become a lot easier for them. In a female runner’s
words, “If you don’t run, and somebody says you’re going to run 5 miles that sounds like a long way. After you get into it, and running becomes part of your life, a 5-mile run is nothing.”
For others, more than an option, running had been a compulsion in the beginning. People with extra weights around their waists had no options but to opt for regular jogging, and that too until the time they fought back their ways to smart bodies all over
again.
However, the only thing that was common between them was the fact that at some stage or the other, almost all of them went for opting a professional marathon training camp, where coaches not only told them how to avoid injuries and stay fit, but also suggested
right foods to build up their stamina. They also helped them out in raising the bar of their performances on the track.
The results of these sustained efforts were tremendous, and there came a time that the people, for whom it was even difficult to go for a longer walk, went up for participating into local half marathon and other marathon meets. Their purpose, definitely,
was not to go for the title of the contests, but to judge and measure their running abilities.
The important fact all these examples point out is that everyone of us has the ability to run a full fledge marathon, provided that we have an interest for it and we opt for the help of professional trainers that can assure the safe built up of our stamina
for the long distance challenge.
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