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How much different is a trail to a road marathon?

guest — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:29:09 GMT

Many thanks BOSNPM - I'll work on spending more time running some trails and I'll add a trail event to my schedule. Thanks.

-b

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How much different is a trail to a road marathon?

guest — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:30:23 GMT

I have only done 3 on trails so I don't know that much. You will need to get your ankle use to running on uneven surfaces, 1st couple of times a lot pf people have more pain, but after you get use to running trails you will get less. When you get tired you had better keep picking your feet up or you will end up falling down a few times. Shoes depends, some people will get trails shoes if it is a very technical trail it will help if not don't worry about it. The people that run trail races are great, a tad different but great! It's slower but all in all I would do one anytime over a road race if I could.

How much different is a trail to a road marathon?

guest — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:19:28 GMT

How much different is a trail marathon to a road marathon? (aside from the obvious, ie. dirt & gravel vs cement and asphalt, single lane track vs 4 lanes of road....)

What would I have to do differently to train for a trail marathon?

Different type of shoes?

Smaller crowd?

Not as fast?

I'm working on my 2013 calendar and was considering a trail event. All comments and wisdom are welcome.

thx

-b

http://runningthrutime.blogspot.com

6/17/2012 AA HM 2:09:01

6/3/2012 DexAA HM 2:00:31

3/11/2012 St Pat's 5K 0:25:42

11/10/2011 A2TT 10K 0:52:27

10/9/2011 Chicago Marathon 4:49:55

9/3/2011 Milford 30K DNF (cramped out at 14m)

6/25/2011 Solstice 10M 1:27:15

6/5/2011 DexAA HM 1:58:53

5/1/2011 BP10K 0:51:58

10/17/2010 Detroit HM 2:06:19

6/6/2010 Dex-AA HM 2:09:30