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6th star at the London Marathon (& alittle PR)
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3:09:21; 7:13/ pace; ~90 second PR
A lesson in trusting yourself.
To PR was not the plan. An easy fun run and collecting my 6th star before turning 40 in July was the plan (86 days to spare!). But turns out the easy fun run was going to also be a PR. I had SO much left in the tank and actually phoned it in the last 5k. I wasn’t tapered, I didn’t do an all-out carb load, I had 20k+ steps the Saturday before the race, it was 70 degrees and sunny at the start. But I had no pressure. No goal. I ran completely on effort. I trusted myself that I was keeping it easy ish - In fact I got a little stressed I was going too fast at times even though I felt fantastic.
The first 5 miles of this race are basically down hill. It was very hard to slow it down so I allowed myself to go with the flow. I smiled. I cried. I didn’t really pay attention to my watch (except a few times when I saw my pace slip into the sub 7s and pulled it back). I took videos and pictures. I truly ran this at a relaxed pace (okay we will call it sub-moderate) I never really hurt. I never had to force anything to keep the pace. I had a cute little negative split (see second slide). I told myself if it starts to get hard I have permission to pull back. Truly it just never got to that place. All I could think is omg @runcoachu is going to be so mad at me 😅😂. This was the most fun I’ve ever had running a marathon. London you’re so very epic.
But the bigger pr here is that mentally I stayed in it. All of last year I was blocked. I was trying to force the success of 2023 and kept falling way short. I couldn’t get out of my head. I would see a pace in my watch and freak out; convinced I couldn’t hold it. I had some health things going on that I finally figured out which helps too(more on that in a separate post).
But. We are so back. Fired up and hungry for more.
I’m so excited for what’s to come. Focusing on some shorter races this summer (5k & Masters Category of the Brooklyn Mile!…:and a little FAFO at the bk half in 3 weeks) and then will build for NYC.
Thanks to 📸: @quentinmui.photos for the shot 🫶🏼🫶🏼
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟
3:09:21; 7:13/ pace; ~90 second PR
A lesson in trusting yourself.
To PR was not the plan. An easy fun run and collecting my 6th star before turning 40 in July was the plan (86 days to spare!). But turns out the easy fun run was going to also be a PR. I had SO much left in the tank and actually phoned it in the last 5k. I wasn’t tapered, I didn’t do an all-out carb load, I had 20k+ steps the Saturday before the race, it was 70 degrees and sunny at the start. But I had no pressure. No goal. I ran completely on effort. I trusted myself that I was keeping it easy ish - In fact I got a little stressed I was going too fast at times even though I felt fantastic.
The first 5 miles of this race are basically down hill. It was very hard to slow it down so I allowed myself to go with the flow. I smiled. I cried. I didn’t really pay attention to my watch (except a few times when I saw my pace slip into the sub 7s and pulled it back). I took videos and pictures. I truly ran this at a relaxed pace (okay we will call it sub-moderate) I never really hurt. I never had to force anything to keep the pace. I had a cute little negative split (see second slide). I told myself if it starts to get hard I have permission to pull back. Truly it just never got to that place. All I could think is omg @runcoachu is going to be so mad at me 😅😂. This was the most fun I’ve ever had running a marathon. London you’re so very epic.
But the bigger pr here is that mentally I stayed in it. All of last year I was blocked. I was trying to force the success of 2023 and kept falling way short. I couldn’t get out of my head. I would see a pace in my watch and freak out; convinced I couldn’t hold it. I had some health things going on that I finally figured out which helps too(more on that in a separate post).
But. We are so back. Fired up and hungry for more.
I’m so excited for what’s to come. Focusing on some shorter races this summer (5k & Masters Category of the Brooklyn Mile!…:and a little FAFO at the bk half in 3 weeks) and then will build for NYC.
Thanks to 📸: @quentinmui.photos for the shot 🫶🏼🫶🏼
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