You never experience any kind of running activities before. Now you are intereting with marathon, and want to get a try. but it is only 2~3 month before the opening of which marathon you prefer to join in. Or you are afraid of that running 26.2 miles is too hard to your body and you have no chance to finish it. So it maybe a good idea to start from a half marathon at first.

 

The running distance of a half marathon is 13.1 miles, haf the distance of a marathon. According to the report on Wiki, participation in half marathon has grown steadily recently. A half marathon is still a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a marathon requires. Normally a 2~3 month moderate training is much enough for finishing a half marathon in requiring time. On the other ...