Thursday, April 23, 2009
Maria Zielinski and five of her friends are driving 597 miles tonight and Friday to Nashville, where they will run 13.1 miles Saturday in the Country Music Marathon & 1/2 Marathon.
Zielinski, Saline, Mich., sophomore, said running a marathon was something she had wanted to do for a long time.
“I would make this New Year’s resolution for the past three years to run a marathon,” Zielinski said. “But I never got around to it — I’d make up excuses.”
How to train for a 5K race
Seven week schedule
Weeks 1-4
Mon: Rest or jog/run
Tues: 1.5 mile run and add .25 miles each week
Wed: Rest or jog/run
Thur: 1.5 mile run
Fri: Rest
Sat: 1.5 mile run and add .25 miles each week
Sun: 60 minute walk
Weeks 5-7
Mon: Rest or jog/run
Tues: 2.5 mile run and add .25 miles each week
Wed: Rest or jog/run
Thur: 2 mile run
Fri: Rest
Sat: 2.5 mile run and add .25 miles each week and run only 1 mile week 7
Sun: 60 minute walk and attend a 5K race week 7
Information from www.runnersworld.com
When Zielinski proposed the idea to her friends, she was surprised they agreed because they were not runners.
“A few of the girls and I kind of peer pressured the rest into doing it,” Zielinski said. “We don’t want it to be all serious and competitive, we just want to have a fun time, laugh and run 13.1 miles together.”
Zielinski said they planned on running in the Lawrence marathon, but when it was canceled, they decided to go to Nashville. This is the tenth year for the Country Music Marathon. Zielinski and her friends paid an $85 registration fee that goes to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team In Training.
“A big thing about finding a marathon was the date,” Zielinski said. “We wanted to make sure we could miss classes to drive there.”
The girls, who have been training for ten weeks, found their training schedule on runnersworld.com and used mapmyrun.com to decide on routes to run.
“We’ve been all over planning new and exciting routes so we don’t get bored,” Zielinski said.
Zielinski and her friends usually run in pairs or groups so they can keep each other motivated throughout the run.
Holly Maygers, Lawrence sophomore, was dubbed “most improved” by her friends because she has struggled the most with running and staying motivated.
“I started out not being able to run two miles straight,” Maygers said.
Maygers is now able to keep up with the others and has gone on two 10-mile runs.
“My roommate Molly picked a 10-mile route for us to go on and it was the hilliest, most awful thing I’ve ever done,” Maygers said. “I was 20 feet behind my roommates the entire time, but I made it.”
Maygers said she struggled the most with getting motivated to go on a run.
“I’ve said all along my motto for this has been it’s not just about finishing a half marathon, it’s my quest for self-discipline,” Maygers said. “Getting that out of it and having some sense of accomplishment will be the best.”
Molly Flyer, Lawrence sophomore, who has been friends with Maygers since they were four years old, said she liked watching the progress Maygers made.
“We’ve all been really good at keeping each other motivated,” Flyer said.
Flyer and Maygers said they realized from the training experience that they both enjoyed running and they didn’t dread it as much as they used to.
“I’ve never been a runner and I don’t really feel comfortable calling myself a runner now,” Maygers said. “But it’s a good release for me and I’m glad I found that out.”
— — Edited by Heather Melanson
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Students to run in Nashville marathon
A marathon is 26.2 miles, a half is 13.1 miles. Are they running a 1/2 marathon of did the author just not bother to look up the correct distance for a marathon?
Students to run in Nashville marathon
Congratulations women on your accomplishments. Its awesome that you are running this event and participating in such worthy causes. That being said, it is 13.1 miles, and therefore not a marathon. A marathon is 26.2 miles. A full marathon is double the distance, and quadruple the effort. Just ask any marathon runner the difference between 26.2 and 13.1. Good luck to you and godspeed on the hills of Nashville.
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