Whether running a mini-marathon for charity, to prepare for a full marathon or to reach a personal goal, you'll know your months of training paid off when you finish the race.
You'll become part of the nearly 1 percent of people worldwide who finish mini-marathons. So, go ahead and lace up your running shoes. Race day is around the corner. Before you hit the pavement, though, let's look at some of the United States' biggest and best mini-marathons. Named after the main sponsor, insurance company OneAmerica, the race is an Indianapolis tradition.
It has been held on the first Saturday of every May since As the largest mini-marathon in the United States and the sixth-largest running event overall, it has a maximum 35, spots available to runners. It has reached capacity every year since To qualify for The Mini, you must provide proof that you can run the Qualifying results from a road race of at least 5K in the previous year will suffice.
The mini-marathon includes race classes for runners age 12 and under all the way up to a class for runners 70 and older. The Mini has a wheelchair division, and corporate and fundraising teams may enter. Registration for The Mini begins online the previous November, but it's such a popular event that it fills up quickly. The race, for example, was full by Dec.
No cash prizes are awarded to winners. On race day, runners line up at a. The Mini has different corrals -- areas sectioned off at the starting line where runners are grouped according to their expected finishing times. The race ends at noon. The Mini is an official part of the Festival, a month-long civic celebration that leads up to the city's famous sporting event on Memorial Day weekend: the Indianapolis auto race.
The Mini is probably the only mini-marathon that calls its water stations "pit areas" to play up the Indy connection. It's certainly the only televised mini-marathon. The Festival includes a parade, kids' carnival and festival princess coronations. However, the running element is arguably the most popular part.
In fact, it's so popular that more than , people attend the after-race block party. Whether you come to run or for the party of the year, this Indianapolis tradition is great fun. The Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon is also tied to a popular sporting event. The While the horses have raced at Louisville's Churchill Downs for more than years, the humans have been running since More than 11, runners compete in the Kentucky Derby Festival miniMarathon the last weekend in April each year.
The miniMarathon is part of a citywide festival, the year-old Kentucky Derby Festival, which features the horse race as its centerpiece. The festival boasts more than 70 events, including a festival-opening televised fireworks display, a formal dance and a balloon race.
There's also a full marathon run concurrently with the mini. Registration begins the previous July and ends on Jan. It also provides admission to the post-race party at Kroger's Fest-A-Ville entertainment venue.
If your heart is pounding through your chest — you ran too hard. If you finish a training run and you are NOT smiling — you ran too hard! Go out for an easy run or fast walk today. The best first step to prepare for running is to move your body. That may seem obvious, but many people ask me running advice before they have even run a single mile. Jeff Sanders It's marathon season, which means you may have a race on your calendar you'd like to run.
But are you ready? The half marathon for me personally is my favorite distance. And it's almost always the most popular race for new long distance runners.
So, if you're eyeing a Good morning! I am Jeff Sanders and this is the podcast dedicated to dominating your day before breakfast. So, if you heard my episode recently about having back surgery, which did happen a few weeks ago, you know that I am dying to get out and run again. So the episode This week is not just my advice for you and how to train for your own half marathon. It is also the exact plan for how I am going to begin training very soon for my own half marathon in the coming weeks and months.
So in the past, I have run a few ultra marathons, about a dozen marathons and well over 50 half marathons, and I love all of those distances. The difference is really not just in how far the run is, but how you train both physically and mentally. And speaking of that, and the range of difficulty and the range of the challenge between the mental and the physical. They are significantly easier actually than the other races, the marathons and the ultra marathons.
And for me, personally, the half marathon is my favorite, because you get the challenge of doing a long run, but without the super intensity and the longevity of training for those really intense events. So let's dig in this week and discuss how You can also run your next or first half marathon, or at least get yourself back in some good running shape. Either way, Here are seven simple steps to run your first half marathon.
And step number one is to acknowledge where you are, this is going to be an extremely important aspect of anyone who's trying to get in shape, which is to be honest, don't lie to yourself about your health, or your level of fitness right now.
Because the number one thing that's going to happen especially for a new runner, or an ace that I have an a runner who's been around for a while, but is not currently in great shape.
And so mentally, you might actually be much further ahead than where you are physically. So this is a common occurrence that I experienced all the time, where I will think to myself, Oh, yeah, I can do about five mile run today. Or I can go do this training run I had planned and only get out there to begin doing the run and realized very quickly that I am not in as good a shape as I thought. And this is going to be a really important aspect.
Not just In the beginning for the first step, but at every single stage along the process to get to the half marathon finish line is that at every single stage in the process, you have to be honest exactly where you are. Because what's going to happen is that when you don't keep that honesty as part of your process, you're going to get injured.
And this is the biggest challenge that most runners face, especially new runners, or those who don't have the proper training and built in to ensure you don't get injured.
Because the only thing that stopped me in the past from running is injury, nothing else, not weather, not excuses, not schedules. The only thing that has stopped me truly stopped me are injuries.
And so if you want to make sure that you have the ability to not only run this half marathon, your calendar now, but also any other race down the road, you have to be healthy, no, you have to be in great shape. And so one of the greatest things you can possibly do is to not only be honest today on day one, but also be honest at every single stage along process to ensure that you are doing the right next workout for you.
So you can grow without injury. Which brings us to step number two, which is to actually go see where you are, right?
It's one thing to kind of mentally have a picture of your own level of fitness and your own health and to believe something about yourself. But it's totally different than to actually go get the data to prove where you actually are. So the best place to begin is the short, easy run, and they actually be a short, easy walk. In many cases, that's the best place to begin, just to gauge where you are. And the best thing to do in the beginning is to move immediately.
I want to get out and see where I am, go for a walk, go for a run, do a combination of a walk and a run whatever it is that's best for you. The goal here is to break the inertia is to get out of your house to get off your couch to get out there in the world and move your body. Now you may choose to run on a treadmill you may choose to run on the road, you may choose a mountain trail nearby. It doesn't matter where you go. The key here is that it's an easy activity.
And that's the kind of thing that you can't really pass up. So if you say to yourself, Well, Jeff, I don't want to go for a run today, because I can't really run three miles or five miles or 10 miles, well, then don't start there. Start wherever you are. So that literally is walking a block, then walk a block. If that's running for two minutes, then run for two minutes. There is no minimum here. The only minimum is that you give an effort to actually begin the process.
And I say this because my own personal health story that I told before this podcast, but I'll tell it again, it's fun, is that when I was in college, I spent a semester abroad. And when I came back from Europe, I was in terrible shape, and just really, really like the worst of my entire life. And so because of that I began a training program that was based on running as the foundation to get myself back into good shape. And my plan at that time, even as a as I was 21 at the time, even as 21 year old.
My plan was to only run for five minutes a day in the beginning. That was a slow pace, a slow five minute run per day for that first week. So five runs for that week as Monday through Friday, that's where I would run. So five runs that week at only five minutes maximum per day. And then the next week, I would run for a little longer.
And the next week a little longer, I slowly but surely began to expand and extend those runs. And so at some point, later on that summer, I was running as far as five miles a day. But it took me months to get there. And so the key here is to start off very, very slow, and very, very easy. Because if you don't love what you're doing, if the running is hard, you're not gonna run for very long, you're gonna hate it, and you're going to quit.
I know this, I've been there. It is not fun to do something that you don't enjoy, and it's not gonna last. So if the running process is painful, then stop. If you're not enjoying it, then make it easier. Do whatever you can to have a good time. That may mean a social run with a lot of friends. It could mean a trail run, it could mean an exciting option. Of course, it doesn't matter what it is, right?
The whole point of this is you do what makes you feel fantastic. So the second step for the process today is to actually go out today and move your body with wherever you are. Step three, then is to create an achievable weekly goal. So once you have the foundation laid to acknowledge where you are, and you've moved your body and have the data around that to know how you feel, and where you actually have a good understanding of your actual level of fitness this point, you now have an actual weekly schedule that aligns to where you think you can go from here.
Now, there are a lot of running plans that exists on the internet, lots of books about this stuff. There are a lot of opportunities here to kind of mix and match the way that you want to train.
I'm not going to tell you where to begin necessarily, besides do some research, right, find a good book, find a good mentor, find a running coach, find a friend to run with.
That's the case where you want to make sure that the plan that you stick with is one that fits your schedule, and one that is achievable for where you are today. The average person trained for a half marathon can easily do so in three to six months.
Six months is probably the the longer end of that, where if you give yourself a full six months, you will probably be able to get there in a way that is healthy. If you're trying to pull off a half marathon and the next two weeks and you have never run before in your life, don't do it. Please, please, please don't do that.
I'm gonna say from experience here, I get emails literally every month from New runners to ask the exact same question. And here it is, Jeff. I just saw a half marathon that's in my nearby town coming up in a few weeks. I'm not a runner. Can I pull that off? Is that gonna work? No, don't do that. Please, God, run and train and take care of yourself. Because if you don't do that, if you do not train, well, if you show up with two weeks of experience and think you're somehow going to pull it off, you're going to get injured, you're going to hate the process.
It's not going to work. Now maybe you pull it off. Maybe you do cross the finish line, but it's gonna hurt.
It's not gonna be enjoyable. So what was the point? A total of FOUR medals and shirts! NOTE: Participants must be registered for the respective challenge to receive the challenge shirt and medal. For example, if you are registered for the Mini-Marathon and Miler Series you will not receive a Mini Maniac medal and shirt unless you are also registered for the challenge. If you would like to upgrade your registration to a challenge or if you have questions, please email raceinfo festival. Students can click here to register!
Click here to register! General Groups The Indy Mini is more fun with friends and family! Greek houses, sports teams, family groups, neighborhoods, and more are some examples of who the Group Mini option is perfect for.
For more information on official Indy Mini groups and discounts, please contact raceinfo festival. Employee Wellness Challenge The Mini-Marathon and 5K provide an opportunity for companies of all sizes to promote workplace wellness, build teamwork while offering a healthy dose of competition, and encourage company participation in the Month of May! For more information on how to add this to your current Corporate Wellness Plan, or to get your company involved, click here!
Badge Match Competition The Badge Match Competition is designed to give badge-carrying agents from the public service sector within Indiana the opportunity to participate in the OneAmerica Festival Mini-Marathon as a team.
These teams compete against one another to be honored as the Badge Match Champion. To fill out team registration, click here!
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