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After my hiatus from training for a marathon only a little over a month from race date, and subsequent training restart a few days ago, the muscle stiffness had set in pretty deep. Once you've been running for about 3-5 hours a week for a few months, the muscles get used to the abuse. I was amazed at how quickly that went away. Two days after what seemed like an easy-ish 6 miles, it felt suddenly like I had run a tough 15 with no stretching.
It pained me to think of running, but that's life as an idiot who signed up for a marathon.
I recently rewatched a thriller from 1978 with Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, and the guy from Jaws, called "Marathon Man." I originally saw the last part of it when I had mono in high school and watched anything and everthing on TV. I wanted to see if it would be as interesting to someone who didn't have mono, but was running a marathon. Turns out it has surprisingly little to do with running except that Dustin Hoffman runs away from the bad guys, and it's not really interesting unless you're too tired to change the channel. But there's an early scene where Dustin's trying to get a girl and chases after her (running) and tells her he twisted his ankle but isn't limping because "when you race for 26 miles you don't give into pain." I took inspiration from this asinine movie, and I ran. So I thank Dustin Hoffman today.
Here's the trailer, and in case you were wondering: yes, I do run shirtless and in pajama pants. It helps me draw more inspiration from the character. And I think on race day, I'll imagine I'm running from a safety-crazed torturing Nazi dentist Laurence Olivier.
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