Walking a Marathon!

[Cinnamon]

Anyone else out there planning to walk (or run) a Marathon this year?

I'll be doing my first Half Marathon in November, the Seattle Marathon. I am really excited and know it will be a blast! I am trying to recruit a few friends to do this with me and have some interest already.

I am not a runner but love walking and hiking, and exercise daily (at the health club or outdoors) and would like to walk a full Marathon for my 50th birthday in 2008 so this is my year to work up to it!

I just wanted to see if anyone else is doing any long walking events this year, your thoughts on training, eating, shoes, or anything you'd like to share!

[salsababy]

I am planning on a 1/2 marathon- hoping (crosses fingers) that I can get back into shape to do a full marathon.

Ooohhh....the Seattle Marathon!!!! I did the 1/2 the year before last and I absolutely loved it! :D I've also done the Seafair but I was a bit disapointed with it.

Advice? Hmm...what kind are you looking for??
Training: I trained myself
Shoes: I get mine from Shoes N Feet because I have crazy feet and am limited to like 2-4 styles period!!!
Eating: Have not ran a marathon raw yet- high raw, yep but not all raw

[hypnocmt]

there's a great article in this month's issue of "On Fitness" on walk-a-thons...full on race-walking for super distances! Good advice for training, diet, gear and so forth. Coincidentally, there's an article on going raw too! In the last few months, I have seen raw diet articles in LOTS of mainstream fitness media...HAve you all been noticing that too?

[Acailuver]

there's a great article in this month's issue of "On Fitness" on walk-a-thons...full on race-walking for super distances! Good advice for training, diet, gear and so forth. Coincidentally, there's an article on going raw too! In the last few months, I have seen raw diet articles in LOTS of mainstream fitness media...HAve you all been noticing that too?

thanks for posting...I'll be sure to pick up that issue;)

[hypnocmt]

called "Chi Walking"

Good for energizing your distance walking from the quantum level. There's also a "sister" book called "Chi Running"