About

Hi,

Welcome runners, marathoners, and future marathoners.

This website was design to help people start training for a marathon, as well as motivate people to train for a marathon for the rest of their lives.

My first marathon was in 1982…. signed up for it 2 weeks before race day. Ran long and hard every day for 2 weeks, bought some running books on how to run a marathon, bought several running shoes. Ended up running with Etonic running shoes. I was tired every day because of the training, there were no rest days. I never heard of it. Hell, I never even read about it. Well when I finally took a peek into those running books I bought, it suggested I train for 6 months before running a marathon, surprise! surprise!

Here I was on race day, at the starting line telling myself how stupid it was to try and run a race I was neither physically nor mentally prepared for. I was ready to just walk away from that starting line – but to save face I stayed because I had friends following me on bicycles and a few scattered along the course to cheer me on.  I just couldn’t walk away after they took the time to get up early that Sunday morning. Talking about saving face, I think I was the only one there with a face of defeat. Somehow, the gun went off and I was forced to move forward with the group.

Again, by some miracle, and I will use this word a lot, I finished that race. I started with thoughts of defeat, I had thoughts of defeat in various sections of the course, I stopped at mile 24 and told my friends I could not continue any longer – they of course said “don’t quit, you are almost there, you only have 2 more miles.” I really didn’t care, I didn’t even know where the darn finish line was. But some how, I crossed that finish line, I was so elated that I thought I had stadium lights flashing from my forehead for the next 12 hours – I can’t describe it clearly, but I felt so good, that I went out dancing for 4 hours that evening, even with the excruciating pain in my legs.

It is now 2009 and all I do and have been doing for over 20+ years is to train for a marathon.

I hope this site will help the two of us continue this wonderful thing called “training for a marathon life.”

Enjoy your Runs,

Daniel Kipkognei