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The medals this year were AWESOME. The bell rings |
At some point in the last year or two, I lost sight of the fact that running a marathon is no easy feat. I got it in my head that I can just go out any given weekend and run 26.2 miles, barely breaking a sweat. I know it has a lot to do with all the ultra training we have been doing especially training for
TARC100. We were doing two 20+ mile training runs a weekend. But even though we were doing tons of miles somehow I forgot that in the middle of that training Emir and I often said to each other that we didn't think we could run 20 miles straight without walking for a few minutes here and there. We were just so immersed in our ultra world, running tons of slow miles on the trail, walking up the inclines and stopping at aid stations for minutes on end that we started to feel like we forgot how to run on the road especially in a race. During my 22 mile training run a few weeks before Philly, I totally bonked and literally took 11-12 minutes per mile to finish the last mile or two which was one reason I had a feeling a PR would not be in the books come race day as I mentioned
last post, I had serious doubts.