Running My First Marathon

Path to Manliness
4 min readDec 22, 2021

I ran a marathon last month. But why? Why would anyone in their right mind willing run 26.2 miles? 52,400 steps. 42 kilometers. Side note: 42 is the meaning to life.

So what inspired me to run a marathon? Well, to see if I could do it. A marathon is something special. It’s not a race against other runners. It’s a very personal race. A race against yourself. And that means most runners are supporting one another.

This was my first marathon and it is one amazing sense of accomplishment. A year prior I ran my first ultra marathon. This was the Tsali Frost Foot

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