Ask doctors today about running the L.A. Marathon

It takes preparation to get through the marathon. Keck Medical School doctors will talk about the race today in a live chat.

By Mary MacVean

March 11, 2013 12 AM PT

Planning to run the Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday? Ready for 26.2 miles? Ready for the recovery afterward? A run that long takes preparation to get a body through it without problems beyond the expected aches and pains.

The Los Angeles Times’ Mary MacVean will talk with three physicans from the USC Keck Medical School about preparing for and recovering from a marathon run. The live chat, which begins at 4:30 p.m. PDT, is open to everyone, and anyone can ask questions. The topics are up to you: the right shoes, eating before and after the run, what to do about injuries or other issues.

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

Ask doctors today about running the L.A. Marathon

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