BROOKS, BE READY! About the project
We want as many people as possible to professionally prepare for the 42,195 m run. That’s why together with the Gdańsk Marathon technical partner, Brooks, we will conduct a training campaign Brooks, Be ready! The campaign will start 12 weeks before the start. Each person registered for the Gdańsk Marathon will receive a weekly training plan, as well as the opportunity to participate in running training with highly qualified coaching staff. In weeks 1-6, it will be one training session per week (Sunday), while in weeks 7-12, it will be two training sessions per week (Wednesday and Sunday). Detailed information on the meeting points for training will be provided in the week before each training session.
Who is behind this?
The coach preparing you for the Gdańsk Marathon 2025 will be Marek Jaroszewski. Polish athlete, runner, who won the Houston Marathon in 2004 with a time of 2:18:50, and set his personal best in the marathon of 2:14:51 in Austin, USA in 2003. You will meet Marek and his team during trainings and you will be able to ask about many details and issues related to the marathon and preparations.
Marek Jaroszewski - sylwetka
When he decided to start his adventure with running in 1990 at the Gwardia Piła club, the coaches didn’t give him a chance. He was too small, too skinny and too slow, he trained with girls because he couldn’t catch up with any of the boys. However, it didn’t occur to him to give up. Quite the opposite – he invested in himself, went to training camps, watched how the best trained. In 1998, he was called up for the army, but even that didn’t stop him from continuing his training – he did his service at the Zawisza Bydgoszcz military sports club. And it was here that he had an epiphany – or maybe I don’t like the training profile? Inspired by his club mates, he swapped the 3 km steeplechase for marathon training. Four years later, he made his debut in Poznań, coming in seventh. Years later, he would say that it was only there that he understood what it meant to run 42 km. However, it didn’t scare him, quite the opposite, he decided to take up the challenge. Now he runs marathons all over the world and deeply believes he can be the best.
Achievements:
2007
- 3rd place in Tampa Marathon, Florida (USA), 02/17/2007, time: 2:21:53
2006
- 7th place in Chevron Houston Marathon (USA), 01/15/2006, time: 2:19:56
- 5th place in Semi-Marathon de Lorraine in Metz 03/19/2006 (France), time: 1:06:04
- Silver medal in 76th Polish Marathon Championships Dębno 09/04/2006, time: 2:16:09
2005
- 2nd place in the Bonn Marathon (Germany), time: 2:15:20
- 3rd place in the Houston Marathon (USA), time: 2:15:34
2004
- V place in the Austin Marathon (USA), time: 2:19:30
- I place in the Houston Marathon (USA), time: 2:18:50
2003
- I place in the Bregenz Marathon (Austria), time: 2:19:45
- II place in the Halle/Leipzig Marathon (Germany), time: 2:20:21
- IV place in Austin Marathon (USA), time: 2:14:51