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DIS Fit Life, “The 9 Circles of Marathon Training Hell” (2015)
DIS Fit Life

DIS Fit Life, “The 9 Circles of Marathon Training Hell” (2015)

“Running a marathon is a great goal. You accomplish something only a small percentage of the population dares to do. You experience setting out and accomplishing something big. And you get to put that 26.2 sticker on the ass-end of your minivan.

Buuuuuut. Let me tell you something about marathons.

You have to train for them. And training for a marathon is like being in all 9 circles of hell at once…for six straight months. […]”    –DIS Fit Life, August 5, 2015 (link no longer active)

Sighting Citation:

“DIS Fit Life, “The 9 Circles of Marathon Training Hell” (2015).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. October 12, 2020. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/the-9-circles-of-marathon-training-hell/.