Mission’s Mark Klassen is one of the Fraser Valley’s fast guys when it comes to running. I guess that picture above is proof.
Mark was on the show a year and a half ago as he was preparing for his first marathon in Sacramento, California.
Each race distance, and I mean every distance from a 100 yard dash to Barkley Ultra stuff presents its own set of challenges.
A fair chunk of those challenges are as mental as they are physical. The marathon (the 42.2 K variety) is no exception.
When it comes to Mark’s first marathon, I could tell you he did it in 2:23 (or you could just look at the picture).
I could also dazzle you with his pacing stats, doing pretty much a 17-minute 5-k pace for the whole 42.2, but that’s only a fraction of the real story. The bulk of the story can’t be expressed on a Sports Stats spreadsheet. That’s why we have podcasts like Fitspeek!
There’s a real human element to those 8,600 seconds Mark spent on the race course. In the interview you can hear about the good, bad, and ugly! We delve into those dark moments most of us athletes experience as we are competing and we also get into some advice for first time marathoners. Hear it now by pressing play!
