Category: Marathons

Marathons

6×60

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I like number combinations. I guess that’s how my brain works. Especially when it comes to personal goals or things I really want to accomplish.

6×60 is my new and personal challenge. It is my goal to run the 6 Majors by the time I’m 60 and becoming an Abbott World Marathon Majors (WMM) six-star finisher.

I started running later in life. The pandemic pushed me into walking and hiking and eventually that lead to running marathons. I’m a spinning instructor, cyclist, and always active, but never was I a runner. Traditionally my knees hurt after 3 miles, my IT band, hips, glutes were chronically tight. But after training for, and hiking, the Grand Canyon South Rim to North and back (~48miles and lots of vertical ascents/descents) I realized my problem with running wasn’t the running, it was my training (or lack thereof). Endurance running requires a serious commitment to strength training and stretching as much as it requires distance runs.

The Rim to Rim Grand Canyon hike sparked my endurance flame so I decided to try a marathon. I enrolled with the American Cancer Society TeamDetermination to run the 2021 TCS NYC Marathon (the 50th anniversary year). My goal was to find a professionally coached running program with a strong community focused on safe, responsible training so I could show up on race day healthy – and finish the race injury free.

I accomplished both, and promptly signed up for the next NYC marathon and starting plotting with my fellow DetermiNation teammates which Major to tackle next. Check out what I have on deck and I’ll share some of my learnings as I go.

MY 6X60 ROADMAP

2021-2022

  • TCS NYC Marathon, November 7, 2021 (NYC Marathon 50th Anniversary)
  • TCS NYC Marathon, November 6, 2022

2023

  • TCS London Marathon, April 23, 2023 (done!)
  • BMW Berlin Marathon, September 24, 2023

2024-2025

  • Tokyo Marathon, March 3, 2024 or March 2025
  • Bank of America Chicago Marathon, October 13, 2024 or Oct 2025
  • Boston Marathon, April 15, 2024 or April 2025

Next up…Marathon training and staying healthy (fingers crossed) along the way.