Marathons Are Dumb – by Jared Dillian
Marathons Are Dumb
JARED DILLIAN
OCT 7, 2022
Share I ran my first and only marathon in 1998. The Silver State marathon, in Carson, Nevada. I was living in the East Bay at the time, and saw a flyer for the marathon on a bulletin board at the Coast Guard base. That was how we found out about things in 1998—flyers tacked to bulletin boards. I drove up there with my wife in November, over the mountains and into Reno. We were staying at the Peppermill casino. I had been training a bit—had one long run of