I’ve borrowed (aka, swiped) the following article from Holden, fellow Korean runner. Thanks, Holden!

Korean Marathoners in the Olympics

Excerpt from The Korea Times.

Hwang Young-cho - Marathon 1992 Barcelona Olympics

The 1996 Barcelona Olympics are unforgettable for South Koreans in two ways.

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[I’m being lazy. This post is from an email I sent out tonite to the peeps]

The Marathon begins at 7am and ends at 1pm. The start and finish lines are in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center. TV coverage will be on KTRK Channel 13 (ABC). I’ve heard they’re expecting around 10,000 runners this year - not including the Half Marathon or the 5K Race.

As a former chain smoker, I never saw myself as someone who could do something like this. So, my goal for Sunday is simple - to cross the finish line. I don’t care about making a certain time other than finishing within the 6-hour time limit. It’s all about pounding through those 26.2 miles and crossing the finish line, baby!

So, in the spirit of shameless self-promotion (hee), here are a few ways to participate with me in the Marathon on Sunday:

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Location: Toyota Center and back
Distance: 3.1
Time: 32:33
Mile 1: 10:55 (had to guess the mile marker)
Mile 2: 10:25
Mile 3 + .1: 11:12 (didn’t see mile 3)
Average Pace: 10:28 min/mile

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only 5 more days…..

[posted on the Houston Running Bloggers discussion board. original author unknown]

The 7 Stages of the Marathon

1 - Ritual

If running isn�t yet a defining daily ritual around which you organize the rest of your life, sometime around three to six months prior to your first marathon it will become so. Here are some tips to get you through those essential long runs each and every week:

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The past few days have felt like a whirlwind, and all of a sudden it’s already the first Wednesday of 2006. Here are the Cliff Notes updates:

• Did 10 miles on parts of Kingwood’s Greenbelt (which spans a total of 75 miles) last Friday. Ran along the banks of three lakes, ending with Lake Houston. It was gorgeous.
• Holiday by Greenday is my new favorite song to run to, followed by Take California by the Propellerheads.
• Saw Wolf Creek. I hate, HATE horror movies, and covered my eyes so much that I essentially listened to the movie more than I actually watched. In the end, though, it was a really bad movie and my anticipation of bad things happening in the movie was scarier than the movie itself. Moral of the movie: Don’t accept water from unshaven Aussies bearing a strong resemblance to Harland Williams.
• Also saw Exorcism of Emily Rose. That one didn’t scare me at all. The movies that scare me are the ones that have an evil murderer hunting people down. Ghosts and demons aren’t scary at all. Crazy people scare me more than Casper.
• Saw Munich too. Very powerful. As a movie, I think it’s one of Steven Spielberg’s best.
• Got a new pair of my usual Brooks Adrenaline GTS 6, which is what I’ll be wearing at the Marathon. ACK! Just one more week!!!!!
• I drove the Marathon route this weekend so that I can replay it in my head as I mentally prepare for MDay. I’m going to start breaking the route into small sections so that it feels more like a bunch of smaller consecutive runs versus one huge 26.2.