Running The Most Comfortable Marathon

Jess has set herself the personal challenge of running 42 marathons in 2025. 

Some will be fast and some will be slow. Sometimes she’ll go alone and sometimes with thousands of others in races. Each one will mean something different and will have its own story.   

Jess has run marathons before. Not 42 in a year, but she knows what it takes to run 42k. The long runs, the easy runs, the strength workouts, interval after interval after interval; eat, sleep, run, improve, repeat. 

Despite how running so often pushes Jess outside of her comfort zone, running is also that thing which is completely within her comfort zone. It’s her way to find both energy and calm from the busyness of life, because running isn’t just about hard reps and personal bests.

There are chatty runs with friends where you laugh the whole way, and the runs where you lose yourself in your thoughts and ideas, and you finish with the joyful, grateful high of being a runner.

Those runs make you feel so good for the rest of the day, because when you move your body you move your mind, and that’s something all runners know. 

For Jess’s next marathon she’s heading to Seville with ASICS. Running a marathon can be so demanding and sometimes painful, but not this one. Seville is going to be the most comfortable marathon Jess has ever run.

This is a chance to forget about the pressure of performance and focus on simply enjoying the run. Jess won’t even be looking at her watch for this race, because she’s measuring the run in smiles, not miles! 

Even better, in Seville she’s getting to share the run with two members of The Running Channel community. All three of them are there for 42k of fun. They can talk, walk, cheer along with the crowds, help each other out, and just celebrate running for what really matters: how it makes us feel great, especially when we do it with others.

Jess’s story for this marathon is all about how running can be inside your comfort zone. Running is a place where you belong and you can do things in your own way, because when you move your body you move your mind, and that’s a wonderful thing. 

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