{"id":3714,"date":"2020-10-12T00:15:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T00:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planeandcheesy.com\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2020-10-12T00:15:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T00:15:42","slug":"training-before-the-chicago-marathon-but-first-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planeandcheesy.com\/training-before-the-chicago-marathon-but-first-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Before the Chicago Marathon; but first, Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Chicago Marathon was scheduled for today- Sunday, October 11, 2020<\/strong>. So here’s my journey leading up to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18 weeks before 26.2 miles<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Before turning a quarter of a century old, I decided to make a list of goals; which I\u2019ll get into later in the year<\/em>. One of them, was running a half (13.1 miles) and full (26.2 miles) marathon. But because of the Covid-19 pandemic, my half marathon was cancelled, then postponed, then made virtual… by then, I gave up on writing about the journey. So here\u2019s my journey towards my full marathon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was (or will be) running the Chicago Marathon with Autism Speaks. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Some resources that helped me prior to doing something completely out of anything I ever thought I would do, would probably help you too! I decided to make this year my year of adventure<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And boy have I done it. Thanks to the pandemic, I\u2019ve learned some new talents I never knew could be as interesting and fun, like cooking<\/a>. It\u2019s made my eating habits better and I eat everything I want; in moderation of course. Diets don\u2019t work for me. The most I\u2019ve done is my modified diet<\/a> and even then, it was only a few days of real detox because I feel guilty. I just have the biggest sweet tooth ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started writing and contacting people in my social media asking who had run a marathon. If they had any tips, goals, guides… I was at an information overload but I needed it to calm myself a little. No one in my immediate family had ever done anything like this, so I was going in blind. I\u2019m grateful for all the meetings, calls, texts, resources and everything everyone provided me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to run with a charity. Mostly because I didn\u2019t know all of my options. I chose to even make the marathon a goal because one of my friends at North Central College wanted to run a full marathon before she turned 30. So of course, I jumped on the band wagon and aimed for it too, but before 25 years old. Little did I know what I was getting myself into.\u00a0Thanks Linh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n