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Marathon. Second place. Here’s the story:
PART 1: Roughly 30 days ago a conversation sparked after watching an Ironman (triathlon) a week or two prior that just occurred in The Woodlands, TX.
The conversation was the difficulty of an iron man and what people are capable of. Swimming a couple miles, biking over 100 miles and running a marathon to wrap it up.
This led to me claiming that I could do a marathon (not an iron man, just the third leg) with no prior training, having never ran a mile in my life (outside of maybe getting a mile in from running triangles and/or poles for punishment at baseball practice) and if you know me you’re probably not surprised I’d make a claim like this 😂
When you say shit that triggers limiting beliefs, you have 2 options:
you can be the guy who says “I can do that but I’m not going to”
Which is no fun, and you’re basically just trolling.
OR:
you can be the guy who doubles down and puts em on the table
Which is what I tend to opt in for, an F you success or a humbling failure… reveal the true outcome.
So, I signed up for the next available marathon somewhat close to me immediately.
I had roughly 30 days to get some equipment (running shoes, watch for pacing) and try to build a tolerance for the gel packs/electrolytes I would take for the race.
I ran over 8 miles just twice over this 30 day period, one (12 miles) being while I was sick, which at the time took the number 1 spot for the most physically challenging thing I’ve done in my life to date.
That run brought true doubt (and also proved how important health is for performance) to my ability to finish 26.2 miles. This 12 mile run was not even half the distance, at just an 11:30 mile pace… 14 days out.
My goal was to aim for a sub 4 hour 30 minute marathon with a sub 4 in the back of my mind, which sounded insane to say out loud at 210lbs and no training 🙂↔️
And also meant I’d need a 10:18 average pace for goal 1 and a 9:09 mile pace for 3:59:54, goal 2.
Far off.
I hit the next 7 days of training of just a few runs throughout the week and the week prior to the marathon I ran a total of 3 miles tapering down to go into it well rested.
The closer the race gets, the excitement climbs.
Finally, race is here, starts at 6am. Timer set for 4:30am wake up time, wake up at 3:50am before the timer fires.
Get ready, head to the race with my support team that made all the difference.
No idea wtf I’m doing, asking where I’m suppose to stand for my event (rookie move) and then I see from the corner of my eye a runner tampering with their watch. Shit… I forgot to start my GPS for pacing, race starts. 🙂
I try to type in the password on the watch while coming out the gates and mistype it (which I’ve done 100 times before, no problem) and discovered a feature for the first time. 15 minute lock out from my own watch bro.
At that point I decide I’m not even going to use the watch when it’s back online for my pacing and I’ll just try to run controlled as possible to start and go by feel after that.
After the first mile or so, I settled in with people at a similar pace and start talking (I had no music or anything, just raw earthly vibes on the lake)
I felt really good running with them, they were cool dudes. After a couple miles one of the gentlemen mentioned they were out pacing their intended goal. I ask “what are yall aiming for” he says “sub 4”
Ayeee, same goal 🤝 let’s eat.
After running with a group of people you have been talking to for a while and start to separate from pacing variation, it’s kind of a weird feeling.
Am I betraying the homies by leaving them behind? We are only 5-6 miles in (about 50 mins passed so far) and I don’t know them but still just felt weird because it’s such a slow separation mid convo until you slowly arnt in range to talk to each other.
Run alone for a while, just me and my thoughts. Eventually, I catch up to a track guy. Cool fella, ran with him for 10+ miles having good convo when