Training for two full marathons and 11 half-marathons have taught me a lot about life. 1.
Still, the marathon can teach harsh lessons.
For Liz Kirk, 31, an ethical trade manager, using the London marathon to get fit taught her a lot, and it was a good motivator to do more: "In the end, discipline and fear are the main advantages of using a big event to get fit.
She ran marathons, biked regularly, and taught mathematics and classics at St . Johns College.
When Fournier wasn't in the field, he participated in marathons, pentathlons, and marksmanship competitions; he taught skydiving courses and went back to school.
My years with Steve Case when he was C.E.O. of AOL taught me to approach work as a marathon, not a sprint.
Marathon, babies, marathon.
MIKE KEOHANE, a New York City running coach, teaches a half-marathon training program that is based around two key workouts a week.
I know they'll all be running half-marathons in their 70s and teaching their grandchildren how to hang-glide in the Andes while I'm being fed soup in a day hall and singing the Harry Hood song in my demented slumbers.
