BREAKING: You Should Train Before Running a Marathon | Runner's World

BREAKING: You Should Train Before Running a Marathon | Runner's World: "An expert says it is not advisable to run 26.2 miles without preparation.
By Mark Remy (Google+)
Published
November 6, 2013"

Readers, I hope you're sitting down. If you aren't, please do so. I'll give you all some extra time, since I know many of you recently ran a long race.

Good? Good. Here, then, is today's bit of running advice:

If you intend to run a marathon, you should train for it first.

Sorry if I just blew your mind. And I apologize to Remy's World readers whocould have used this information before Sunday's New York City Marathon.

Anyway, this news comes to us via Fox News's Fox & Friends, which aired a segment Saturday titled "Busting Marathon Myths." In it, cohosts Tucker Carlson and Clayton Morris lob assertions over a glass-top table toward a guy called Dr. Marc Siegel ("MEDICAL A-TEAM"), who proceeds to bat down the ones that are bunk and affirm the ones that are not. Also there's a recurring joke about Snickers bars.

Halfway through, we get to the bit where Mr. Morris asks, with an innocence that's endearing to watch, whether it's really necessary to, you know, actually prepare for a 26.2-mile footrace:

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