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Each week , Good Weekend ’s how-to column shares expert advice on how to navigate some of modern life’s big – and small – challenges. This week: How to run a marathon.

Given that a marathon is 42.2 kilometres – the distance, approximately, from the MCG to Frankston, or from Sydney Town Hall to Waterfall – let’s, momentarily, put aside the central question of how to run a marathon to address a more pressing one: why do it in the first place?

“People do it for their own reasons,” says Gold Coast-based record-breaker…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU