Coach Jenny’s Top-5 Tips for First-Time Marathoners
- By Linzay Logan
- Published Feb. 1, 2013
- Updated Feb. 1, 2013 at 1:49 PM UTC
3. Pace Yourself
“I’m a huge advocate of negative splits. It’s all about effort, less about pace. Hold back your effort level so you can push hard effort wise in the second half. The strongest runner at the end is almost always going to be the fastest.”
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Linzay Logan
Linzay Logan is the copy editor for Competitor magazine and cares about punctuation probably a little too much. She particularly loves to avoid commas as well as add exclamation points whenever she can get away with it! She also loves to run marathons and half-marathons—probably a little too much. Don’t let her small size fool you; she’ll still try to outrun you anytime. Even though chances are she probably can’t.