Essential Marathon Race Day Preparation Checklist

Posted on Feb 6, 2026 in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation

Marathon Race Day: Are You Ready?

Do you know what to do on the day of the marathon? As long as you follow these easy steps, you can enjoy the day without having any problems.

Essential Race Day Steps

  • Start Early: Get up early and give yourself plenty of time to get ready. Once you are awake, stretch and have a proper, healthy breakfast at least one hour before running.
  • Arrive Promptly: Leave and get to the start in plenty of time. You might need to pick up your race number, and lots of people will be waiting in the queue.
  • Warm Up Wisely: Use the extra time to warm up with a short run. Be ready to start without tiring yourself too much before the race.

Mindset for Success

Before the marathon starts, you definitely shouldn’t worry about finishing the race. It is not winning that matters, but taking part. Finishing your first marathon is a great achievement, so enjoy it!

A Complaint Regarding Spanish Football TV Rights

Dear Mr. Villar,

With reference to your article about the situation of Spanish Football, I am writing to express my opinion and suggest an alternative.

The Unfair Distribution of Television Fees

I am against the fact that Real Madrid and Barça take away most of the television fees for several reasons:

  1. The other 18 teams of the LFP will gain significantly less money than those two clubs, without taking into account the position they have achieved in the league.
  2. It creates a big difference in the budgets of the teams, resulting in a totally unbalanced league in every sense.

Proposal for Fairer Distribution

In my opinion, those television fees should be distributed based on the team’s situation in the classification—the higher you finish, the more you gain. It seems to me that if this were applied, we would achieve a more equal football league.

To sum up, the players of the 18 remaining teams should organize a strike in order to demand a fair distribution of television rights.

Yours sincerely,

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Ibiza Holidays: Weighing the Pros and Cons

If you are considering traveling to Ibiza this summer, consider the pros and cons before you decide.

The Advantages (Pros)

  • World-Class Music: In Ibiza, you can enjoy the best techno, mixed by the world’s best DJs, such as Carl Cox and Richie Hawtin.
  • Relaxation: You also have the option to go to the beach to relax while having a mojito or any cool drink.

The Disadvantages (Cons)

  • High Prices: The clubs of Ibiza have very high prices. Entrance to a club can cost around £24, and a drink inside the club around £17.
  • Travel Costs: Furthermore, you need to take an airplane to get there, which significantly increases your overall cost.

Conclusion

To sum up, I believe that saving money for a while can make people afford the option of spending a holiday in Ibiza.

English Vocabulary and Grammar Notes

Prepositions

Adjectives + Preposition

  • + of: capable, fond, ashamed, good, jealous (or delighted)
  • + about: certain, upset, unhappy, right, anxious

Phrasal Verbs

  • Get: around, on, at, over, away
  • Come: out, up with, across, into, up against

Future Tenses

Future Continuous (S + will be + V-ing)

  • Uses: Describes an action in progress at a specific time in the future. Also used for changes or developments expected at a certain point in the future.

Future Perfect (S + will have + Past Participle)

  • Uses: Used to talk about an action that will be completed before a specific time in the future.

Simple Future (S + will + Infinitive)

  • Uses: Normal future predictions or spontaneous decisions.

Past Habits

Used To

  • Affirmative: S + used to + Infinitive
  • Negative: S + didn’t use to + Infinitive
  • Question: Did + S + use to + Infinitive?
  • Uses: Describes actions or states in the past (does not require a time expression). Suggests the action or state is no longer true.

Would

  • Affirmative: S + would + Verb
  • Negative: S + wouldn’t + Verb
  • Question: Would + S + Verb?
  • Uses: Describes repeated actions in the past, but never states.

Word Formation

  • Prefix: self- (Relating to yourself; used with many nouns and adjectives.)
  • Suffix: -able / -ible (Meaning something that can be done; used with many verbs to make adjectives.)