The Sub 3:15 Marathon Thread
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14 Jan
7:40pm, 14 Jan 2025
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Mark J 🇳🇿
Windsor Wool wrote: Must be nice in some ways to stand on a start line thinking it's in the bag - OK, it can go wrong but that's got to be better than my norm which is 'there's no way I can do this'!! It can be a real mixed bag for me. As long as I stick with the plan and the sessions go "mostly" (90%+) to plan, I can feel confident leading up to race day. But as soon as the gun goes off, for those first few kms my head is just full of the "there's no way I can keep this up for the whole race" thoughts. My general issue with over confidence comes when I think I've got to a certain level in whatever it is I do and then start to coast, completely forgetting that you have to maintain a level of effort and commitment to at least stay where you are at. I'm an idiot to myself in life like that. But hey I'm learning, still. |
14 Jan
8:12pm, 14 Jan 2025
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Windsor Wool
you’ll get there when you grow up 😂
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14 Jan
8:13pm, 14 Jan 2025
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Mark J 🇳🇿
Windsor Wool wrote: you’ll get there when you grow up 😂 Grow up?? What is this "grow up" you refer to? |
15 Jan
3:22pm, 15 Jan 2025
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Akie
Windsor Wool wrote: Must be nice in some ways to stand on a start line thinking it's in the bag - OK, it can go wrong but that's got to be better than my norm which is 'there's no way I can do this'!! Beforehand and even the first 3-4 miles I feel like this before I get a decent chunk of miles under my belt in the race and go from there. People often say the first 5 miles are where you enjoy it but not sure Ive ever felt that. |
15 Jan
4:51pm, 15 Jan 2025
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larkim
I've stood on the start line confident. But never "in the bag". Of course, confidence can be built on sand. My comfort blanket is getting through the training schedule I've set myself without any negative physical impacts, and then (since marathon 1) knowing that I've done it before and my correlation of training vs outcome has been pretty consistent. When I followed a different plan for Snowdonia 2023(?) I had a little less confidence about the outcome and around mile 15 some of the demons about that were getting louder. |
15 Jan
7:17pm, 15 Jan 2025
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KinkyS
You know, of all the things I miss about being a decent runner, it's not actually the PBs, the wins, the England vests or any of that cool stuff. It's standing on the start line of something and thinking 'yeah, I can do this'. Health stuff has taken away a lot of my fitness but it's also taken that confidence away. I want to be the arrogant, quietly cocky runner that says after one lap of a twelve lap marathon 'I'm going to win this' and know with 100% confidence that it's true. Well not the win any more obviously but I'd like the attitude back! I'm on a 19 day streak of runs (no mean feat when it's been minus double figures stupid and under lots of snow for a week), only 3-6 miles each, but so far nothing has fallen off. Maybe it's coming back... |
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15 Jan
7:42pm, 15 Jan 2025
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Windsor Wool
wow. The few times I’ve led at parkrun I’ve been so full of fear it been difficult to overcome to the point that more than once I’ve completely imploded. At parkrun!!
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15 Jan
7:47pm, 15 Jan 2025
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Bazoaxe
I have only led a parkrun twice, in fact any race. Finished second both times and I do admit I didn’t like being ahead and finished second both times when I could have and should have won.
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15 Jan
8:43pm, 15 Jan 2025
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jdawayinamanger
I've bagged a handful of firsts (parkrun and otherwise), mostly by the cunning strategy of finding a small minor event with a weak entry  As for confidence, it's hard not to be nervous at the start of a marathon, even if well trained. It's not like a 10k or even a HM when you know you can get through it fine whether or not you hit your target. In a marathon, you're going to suffer whatever the outcome and if it goes wrong it's awful. |
15 Jan
9:27pm, 15 Jan 2025
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HappyG(rrr)
I once led a 10K (at the location of Bazo's home parkrun actually). It was 2 x the parkrun route. As we came to a cone which marked the halfway, I was leading. Confused the hell out of me. Knew a young lad was right with me, as I went round cone, I let him through with a polite "Well done". He surged ahead and I never made up the 20 or so metres. Ach weel! G
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