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My Second Full Marathon

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This is the second time I'm doing a Full Marathon (FM). And when compared to the first one , this is way less dramatic (only 2 months training compared to 4 months and no injury scares/doubt of participation) and hence the post itself is much smaller. Marathon Thoughts It is October. I guess the registration for SPCM 2020 has started. I'm thinking. It's been around 2 years since I did my first FM. I did a Half Marathon (HM) in July (DRHM 2019) and achieved a respectable timing of 2.04 hours. Should I improve my HM timing or do a second FM ? I did my first FM in 5.15 and I thought there is definitely good scope of improving that time. Panneer (friend of mine and an ultra runner) was also pushing me to do FM in SPCM 2020. Okay, I I will do another FM and probably bring my time  under 5 hours.  But the training needed for FM is too long and much difficult when compared to HM.  By Googling, I found a short 8 week (2 month) training plan for FM . I made slight modi