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Awesome video! Appreciate you sharing with us my baldy runners 😎 🏃‍♀️ 💪🏽

Nicely done, Arron. Lots of great points and obeservations

Incredible film! Congratulations on achieving a sub 2:50 and thank you for sharing your journey

hey alvin, im doing the 5k/half double at long beach and wanted to pick your brain on executing this. im planning on racing both which i expect to come at some expense of my half marathon performance. you hit a low 18 5k and a 1:23 half - did you go all out on the 5k? either way, how much do you feel the 5k took away from your half marathon performance? do you do anything in particular to make sure you're as fresh as possible going into the 2nd race?? i think racing the 5k will take 3-5 min off my time but if really fatigued, as much as 20 (musculoskeletally limited). the 3-5 min has no basis on experience but the 20 min estimate comes from me trying a long run with fartleks the day after a recent 5k.

Nice good stuff!

Well done, Alvin! I will be doing the 10K less than 2 weeks from now, and attempting to go sub 40 as well. When exactly does the steady uphill start?

Always enjoy watching your videos before long runs. You always have such a positive attitude and bring such an uplifting vibe. Keep it up! Even if these are for personal memories, people see these and see your love for the sport and your positive outlook on life and it brings smiles. Thanks for always bringing that energy Alvin!

Found your channel through AHRC and loved these two CIM videos. Definitely taking notes to help me improve my chances at a BQ this year in 2024. Sub 3 is A goal. BQ is B goal. PR under 3:13 is C goal.

I like the peacefulness. and the cool lady spraying the finishers with the garden hose

man even an 18miler could get hard specially if you're just building up

Always enjoy your videos. 👍

I really enjoyed watching this vid and hearing the wonderful insights you have shared. I’m watching this from Melbourne in Australia and preparing for my first marathon in October. Your comments and learnings have added to my knowledge build. Congratulations - an inspiring story!

Thank you for you and your video. I'm also in your video in the last mile 😂

Great video! Would you run the 11 miler again or do the full marathon? Or not run it at all again?

Anyone know what happens if you don't make the 6hr time limit?

Great job making the best of a not so great situation, Alvin. I had to stop and pee during a marathon last Fall. Felt so defeated! I’ll be running CIM in ‘25, appreciate the recap as it helps with my planning. I’ve heard from many that the rollers in the first half can be brutal!

You should have more subscribers. Keep going 👍

Congrats on the PR Alvin! You make me want to push harder now….😎✌️🌲

congratulations and a really good marathon time for sure, I was running Grandmas as well this year as well, and yes it was very cold and wet at the end. During the race I found it perfect temperature at that time. thanks on sharing

I recently discovered your channel, so happy for you with this amazing achievement! Looking forward to seeing where running takes you :)

Well done Alvin!!

Congratulation. Look forward to your Boston Marathon video soon :)

Congratulations! Such an enjoyable video. I said let me watch 10 mins, then didn’t notice where the time went when the full video ended.

Youre a beast!

Hello Alvin! I love all your content, but I've watched this specific one so many times as I'm preparing to run my first marathon ever at the SF Marathon 2024. You've been one of my main inspirations to train as hard as I can, so thank you. Quick question for you -- would you say the pacers were running at a consistent pace even during those long stretches of uphills?

Hey man congrats. I showed up in a lot of the late race clips (guy in the “Daddy’s Money” singlet) and finished 2:50:0x. Happy you had a better finish than I did!

This should be the gold standard for all the race recaps. So happy for you Alvin! Thanks for taking us down the memory lane and I loved hearing about every detail leading up to the race, during the race and afterwards.

Congrats on the sub-2:50 and great job on the recap video. You captured the feelings of many of us marathon runners so well. Especially liked hearing about bonding with others who are only running near you for portions of the race. After my Tokyo finish several people came up to me and spoke about how they had followed right behind me the whole race, as if we were buddies without having spoken a word yet.

nice storytelling -- I could feel some emotions welling up in me when you described the final spurt of the marathon 🥺. and good job making sure all the poops came out of you beforehand. may the running winds be with you in Boston and the 100K!

Congrats dude!

Great video. Enjoyed it

Nice job brother! Congrats!🎉

Amazing job!

Congrats ! Proud 2:49 22 !

Congrats 🎉🎊 So awesome!!! I love your recap, so amazing to be able to follow your amazing accomplishment! Wishing you a great Boston marathon!

Congrats Alvin!!! 🥳🥳🥳 great race 👍🏼

Congrats on crushing your goal. Very impressive to see how much you have improved. Enjoy Boston it is a special experience.

Congrats on crushing your goal. Very impressive to see how much you have improved. Enjoy Boston it is a special experience.

congrats! great to see how you progress over the years. congrats again

Congrats Alvin, so proud of you. So many losses and BQ Attempts throughout this journey but now you have officially done the impossible. Have fun in Boston, now it's my turn, getting that BQ Attempt at CIM thus coming December 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Babe come quick, new Alvin Ma vid just dropped. Congrats!

wow!!! huge grats!! so awesome! So it sounds like you're going to do Boston? There is some chance I'm going to do Boston as well, maybe we could pace together. I would like to break 2:50 as well if conditions are good. Looking forward to seeing you again, it would be nice to catch up!

Awesome race and recap -- congrats on hitting your goals!

Congrats Alvin! Great work and taking what you learned in the past to destroy Grandmas. You had the race marathoners dream of! Enjoy Boston!

Amazing! Huge congrats! 🎉 Great race recap too 💪 loving your videos 🔥

Congratulations Alvin, what a great run!

congrats alvin!! Proud of you and you're an inspiration. Also just ran sub 2:50 for the first time :)

Soo TL;DR is miss a flight, inhale a bunch of spaghetti, and live like a college student again to Boston qualify? :D Great job homie, we all knew you had it in ya, and glad the marathon gods finally gave you an official result to show for all your strong diligence and effort. Looking forward to what the 100K brings :D

Alvin!! Congratulations!! So happy for you, man!