Comments on: My First Marathon – a Bad Day at the Races https://lithoguru.com/life/?p=167 Musings of a Gentleman Scientist Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Sunny Kalsi https://lithoguru.com/life/?p=167#comment-12278 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12278 Congratulations! Well done on finishing your first marathon. The thing with finishing it is that you can always try again. If you failed you might just not have tried any more.

I’m not nearly fit enough to run a marathon, but I’d believe that a hot or muggy day will change your performance. If you don’t train for it or don’t account for it, you’ll be in trouble. You may have just screwed up by being a newbie and mis-calculating / mis-training rather than by being unfit or not training hard enough. The great news about that is that the learning experience has already happened, and it’ll stay with you.

]]> By: markeypilot https://lithoguru.com/life/?p=167#comment-12290 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-12290 … but you did do it. Even more, you have gotten yourself into a new level of conditioning that you never had before. Congratulations.

New goal for Markey – get back into shape to be able to run a 5 or 10k with Chris. I’m up to 5 k now, so 10k is for 2010.

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