In my training days, my attorney husband Bruce was playing rugby. There would be rugby parties every Saturday night. I always took my longest run of the week on Sunday mornings, so I didn't want to drink and stay up late. I would drink a few sodas and then slip out around nine and sleep in the car. Bruce's friends thought it was terrible, but it was our compromise and it worked for us.
Marathon running, like any sport, requires a certain amount of selfishness.
You cannot allow others to take you away from your training. This aspect of the profession was very difficult for me to come to terms with. I started running because I wanted to be able to tell people I had run a marathon. I wasn't serious about a career at the time and figured I might just be moral support for my husband in his rugby training. So I began jogging for the sole purpose of running the 26.2 miles.