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Marathon Training

Twice a year, Second Wind organizes groups of runners to train for Fall and Spring marathons. Second Wind Running Club with Marathon & Beyond will provide training advice, well marked courses, maps, and water and sports drinks on the course. Below you’ll find the dates, locations, and planned mileage for each run. You do not need to be a Second Wind member to participate. But if this is the sort of thing you enjoy, join the club and help support the local running community.

A Marathon-day checklist for all of the things you might considering wearing, taking, and consuming for an out-of-town marathon.

Previous Marathon Training Handbooks: Additional Running Articles:

 

Spring 2008 Marathon Training

If you are planning to run a marathon in the spring of 2008, the Second Wind Running Club's Marathon Training Group could be a great complement to your training schedule. The club is sponsoring organized long runs featuring courses with marked miles. There is no registration or entry fee (but regular participants have to be paid-up members of Second Wind). Runners and walkers are welcome at any or all of the runs. Each run will start promptly at 8:00 a.m. and the walkers should start at 7:00 a.m. You bring the legs and the wind, we’ll provide the maps, the water, the Gatorade, and the camaraderie. Club member Andrew Signor is coordinating the runs, with the help of various club members -- (help still wanted for a few runs).

The target marathon is the Madison Marathon on May 25 in Madison, WI.    If you are training for a marathon other than one on the weekend of the target race, you can run with the training group and add or subtract a few miles as your schedule dictates. Below is a list of several other spring Midwest marathons.

All runs officially begin at 8:00 a.m.  Questions?  Email  Andrew Signor

Date Distance/Maps Starting point
Sunday, February 10 12 mile map Prairie School, Urbana
Sunday, February 24 14 mile map Hessel Park, Champaign
Sunday, March 9 16 mile map Centerville (White Heath)
Saturday, March 22 18 mile map Lake of the Woods, Mahomet
Sunday, April 6 20 mile map Hessel Park, Urbana
Sunday, April 20 23 mile map Allerton Park, Monticello
Sunday, May 04 20 mile map Prairie School, Urbana
Target Event 26.2 miles

 

Some Spring 2008 Midwest Half-Marathons, Marathons & Ultramarathons

Date Race and Link Location
March 29 Clinton Lake 30 mile Trail Run Clinton Lake, IL
April 6 GO! St Louis Marathon (& half) St Louis, MO
April 21 Boston Marathon Boston, MA
April 19 Ouachita Trail (50K/50mile) Little Rock, AR
April Double Chubb (50K/25K) St Louis, MO
April 26 Country Music Marathon (& half) Nashville, TN 
April 26 Kentucky Derby Marathon (& half)  Louisville, KY
April 27 Running Fit Trail Marathon (& half) Pickney, MI
May 3 Indy Mini Marathon Indianapolis, IN
May 4 Great Western Half Marathon Batavia, IL 
May 4 Flying Pig Marathon (& half) Cinncinati, OH
May 10 Lake Geneva Marathon Lake Geneva, WI
May 10 Journeys Marathon (& half) Eagle River, WI
May 10 Ice Age (50K/50mi)  Whitewater, WI
May Berryman Trail Marathon (& 50 mi) Potosi, MO
May 18 Cleveland Marathon (& half) Cleveland, OH
May 18 Green Bay Marathon (& half) Green Bay, WI
May 24 Bayshore Marathon (& half) Traverse City, MI
May 25 Madison Marathon (& half) Madison, WI
May 25 Med City Marathon (& half) Rochester, MN
May 31 Sunburst Marathon (& half) South Bend, IN
June 8 Deadwood Marathon (& half) Deadwood, SD
June 7-8 Kettle Moraine (100K/100mi) Whitewater, WI
June 21 Grandma’s Marathon (& half) Duluth, MN 

Clinton 30 Mile Ultra Training Series

Second Wind Running Club is hosting a training series to familiarize runners with the Clinton lake course and aid in their preparation for the Clinton Lake Ultra Trail Race on Saturday, March 29, 2008. There will be experienced ultrarunners at these training runs to show the courses and to help answer questions for people unfamiliar with trail running and ultras.  The training series consists of 6 runs spaced two weeks apart (one time they are only one week apart) with increasing mileage as the program progresses.  The goal of this training series is to assist runners in preparation for the Clinton Lake race as well as provide an opportunity for club members to become more familiar with the trails in our vicinity.  You do not need to be registered for the race in order to participate in these runs or run the full distance at each run.

All training runs are on Saturday mornings and start at the course trailhead at 8:00 a.m. Meet in the Home Depot parking lot at 7:15 a.m. on any of these training dates if you would like to carpool to the training run. Contact  Brian Kuhn at 217-778-6545 with questions.

Date Distance Location
January 12 10 miles 1 loop of Clinton Lake
January 26 12-16 miles Riddle Run Mahomet Trails (3-4 loops)
February 9 18 miles 3 loops of Allerton Park's Schroth Trail (south side)
February 23 20 miles 2 loops of Clinton Lake
March 1 21 miles 3 loops of Lake Mingo
March 15 20 miles 2 loops of Clinton Lake
March 29 30 miles Clinton Lake 30 mile Trail Run

 

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