{"id":1013,"date":"2011-03-21T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T23:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T19:43:16","slug":"4-tech-tools-for-marathon-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/21\/4-tech-tools-for-marathon-training\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Tech Tools for Marathon Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the LA Marathon on Sunday in 6 hours and 30 minutes. Walking the whole thing straight would&#8217;ve been faster, and I was on track for a 5 hour and 45 minute marathon, but my foot blew out in the last 4 miles. There were lots of things that almost derailed this marathon, but I&#8217;m glad I did it. All the hard work paid off this time.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, it&#8217;s nothing more than a muscle injury and not a fracture. I&#8217;ll find out soon.<\/p>\n<p>There are 4 tools that really helped me out. I&#8217;ve tried a dozen tools but these 4 turned out to be the best of the lot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkeeper.com\/\">Runkeeper<\/a> was by far the best for daily use. I&#8217;ve tried different apps and even got a GPS enabled watch, but Runkeeper proved itself to be quite a bargain at around $10 USD .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/marathon_training.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/marathon_training-300x240.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"marathon_training\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/marathon_training-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/marathon_training.png 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next up is the free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.runningmethod.com\/\">Marathon Coach<\/a> app by Running Method. It&#8217;s free but shouldn&#8217;t be used as a stand alone since it&#8217;s GPS features are quite buggy. However, the synergy you get when used with Runkeeper is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Ferriss&#8217; book, <a href=\"http:\/\/fourhourbody.com\/\">The Four Hour Body<\/a>, really helped me out a bit. I experimented one week by reducing the amount mileage by 75% of my midweek run and replaced it with sprint work. This sprint work was provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/acceleratesf\">AccelerateSF<\/a> at Kezar Stadium. These guys are great and train you for $5 \/ session by experienced marathoners and track runners. The result was a fast (for me) weekend run where I ran 10 miles in 2 hours and 5 minutes vs. a previous 2 hours and 10 minutes. What&#8217;s more is that this speed gain pretty much remained with me throughout training.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marathonman.typepad.com\/marathoning_matters\/2008\/12\/read-about-the-true-secret-of-carbo-loading-and-never-hit-the-wall-again.html\">Rapid carbohydrate loading after a short bout of near maximal-intensity exercise<\/a> is the last piece of technology that helped me. I didn&#8217;t hit the wall at all during the LA Marathon by following this program.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few mistakes I made during training:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be sure to keep your nutrition levels up. I had a zinc deficiency that led to an infection. I did not eat enough protein or consume enough calcium in the beginning. The requirements for these double during training.<\/li>\n<li>I think the reason I got injured was because I didn&#8217;t have the year of running that is required as a base prior to any marathon training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Marathon training is quite the commitment but I&#8217;m glad I did it!<\/p>\n<p>(I also raised money for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/\">American Heart Association<\/a> as part of my marathon participation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the LA Marathon on Sunday in 6 hours and 30 minutes. Walking the whole thing straight would&#8217;ve been faster, and I was on track for a 5 hour and 45 minute marathon, but my foot blew out in the last 4 miles. There were lots of things that almost derailed this marathon, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[349,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}