How long would anyone recommend between marathons ? I was hoping to get into the edinburgh marathon but didn't get a place in the ballot and couldn't raise the minimum sponsorship for a charity place (£500), so i applied for the Lochaber marathon and got a place. However a charity has just contacted me wondering if i wanted to do the edinburgh for them and said i would only need to raise £150 minimum (what the charity paid for the place) but obviously i would try to raise more. Lochaber is 27th April and Edinburgh is 15th June so thats 7 weeks between them, any opinions? Myself i think thats to close together and i think i may have read somewhere that your body takes about a month to recover. Also this is my first proper marathon, i did a cross country thing 3 years ago. For the past year i have been running regularly 2 or 3 times a week, usually 3 or 4 mile runs. Since New Year i have started a proper training programme for the Lochaber marathon.
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a compromise would be to take the first marathon very easy...run it, don't race it if you see what i mean, and then be very very nice to yourself in between, and have a go at the second one....
and be prepared to have a hard time and possibly walk some of it....but there's no shame in that!