What They Don't See

The average person doesn't fully grasp the amount of work involved in training for a marathon (26.2-mile) race; all he/she/they see is the result, the time. But the truth is most of the labor has already been completed prior to the day of the event.

Rigorous and extensive preparation accounts for 95% of the observable success of marathon runners. Meanwhile, the remaining 5% can be attributed to race-day execution.