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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon
My B-I-L ran his first one this year, and this was exactly what happened to him. He was super frustrated by the time the race came around. But he saw a PT to get loosened up the day before the race, then he hopped up on tylenol pre-race, and he still had a very respectable run for a first marathon.
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It is a common experience, as you're pushing the body past its natural glycogen limits, and breaking the body down, until you retrain it and the cellular level.
It is very common and requires more rest than most employ to run their first marathons.