Here's how Chicago runner and fitness trainer Stuart Fisher is training for his hometown marathon.
Train for effort, not perfection.
In a typical marathon-prep week, I train five days out of seven, and I only run two of those days: one shorter maintenance run during the week and a longer run on the weekend. In 2015 and 2016, I ran a lot more than this, ended up overtraining, and finished in my slowest time to date—4:03 in the 2016 race. I discovered afterward that I had a sprained LCL and MCL and had developed IT-band syndrome.
For my long Sunday runs, I build to a max of 20 miles, preferably outdoors and in the morning. Chicago has a beautiful stillness to it before the city starts to stir, and I’ll either run along the lakefront path or a particular section of the marathon course. I love to listen to music on these long runs. Songs that are five or six minutes long help pass the time, and I’m a big fan of R&B, pop, hip-hop, and house music.
As this year’s training plan comes to a close, I think about everything that brought me to this point: my loved ones, my community, my hard work. On race day, I’ll remind myself to cherish the process and the accomplishment. After the starting gun, I’ll enjoy the crowd and the excitement and connect with the experience. Then, around mile 2, I’ll put on my music.
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