Your first marathon starts here.
Choose a race, map your real week, and make space for the preparation around the running.
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Race planning.
From a possible race to a workable race day.
A marathon has a calendar, a budget, and a lot of ordinary details around its finish line. This collection helps you choose an event, describe your current starting point, and turn preparation into a week you can actually live with. Read the race-selection guide before committing to travel. Use the first-marathon guide to connect your goal with work, family, and recovery time. Return to the race-day checklist when you are ready to settle the final logistics. Always confirm entry, access, time limits, and participant instructions directly with the current organizer; a planning article is a companion to those instructions, not a replacement.
Choose your next starting line.
Look beyond the finish-line photograph to the entry route, time limit, travel, and support you need.
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A calmer race day starts on paper.
Organize the bib, transport, familiar kit, and finish-area meeting point before the big morning.
Read the guideA SMALL NEXT STEP. A BIG POSSIBILITY.
Open the plannerYour first marathon starts with a plan.
Put the big goal and your ordinary week on the same page. No account. No complicated dashboard.