4 weeks! Damn,I just signed up to my first one in like 10 months and Im nervous haha. So goodluck with the training and hope everything goes injury free until then. 🙌
haha to be fair I signed up months ago, but didn’t take my training seriously bc I wanted to do too many things 😅 and congrats on signing up for your first! which race is it?
Jeah i believe in you. And it is the attempt that counts. My motto is: slow and steady wins the race. i did a marathon last year in 5 hours without being as consistent as I wished for in the preparation 😅
Ok, you're worse than my new running buddy she signed up for a marathon with 16 weeks including Xmas holidays (so zero training). She once ran a half back in 2019 so nearly 6 years ago and was definitely not fast. But to give you an insight into her mentality, last November she'd signed up to compete in a Hyrox pairs event unfortunately her partner had to drop out will the lame excuse of being heavily pregnant. Rather than dropping out (as it was days before her 50th birthday) she convinced me to take their place 5 weeks before, foolishly I hadn't Googled what a Hyrox event was. Silly me. We only had time two training sessions prior to the event and honestly we were just hoping to finish. Now, how does this link to the marathon? Well I'm a bit of a runner not a gym goer hence I'm dragging her around as doing a sub 2 hour half is nothing for me. In the last 3 weeks she's gone from struggling with a 5k run under 30 minutes to we did 15km in 1:44:29. I expect by the end of January will be closer to 1:30 and we'll starting on basing longer runs on time rather than distance. She knows now it's gonna hurt but like embedded RTOS it's balancing power and process efficiency, she needs to understand what 4 hours of running feels like. Back to the Hyrox story, as both of us are over 50 and had very little training were fully expecting to be last or not finish within the time limit therefore knew it was a matter of balanced effort. We played to strengths; I did the bulk of the endurance work and she did the movement tasks. We were the last to complete the event which spurred us on to nearly sprint the last 1km, leaving everything out there. Everyone cheering really helped , we felt so tired but so happy we'd finished. Only when someone reminded us it was a wave start it dawned us, we didn't just manage to finish we'd actually over taken several of the younger competitors that had gone out to hard and struggled over the line. The lesson is; understand what you are about to do, prepare the best you can and remember to run your own race at your own pace.
@@okbrinty Think the other advice I could give is just to take each step you can and if it's particularly painful just think, this step is the best step I can do right now and the next step will be the best step I will be able to do right now. There's so many mind games you can play with yourself to help you get to that finish line. Truly think you will get there !! Maybe I'll end up doing a Marathon now before the end of the month lol. Been tempted.
good luck soldier, don't risk injury
thank you!! taking it very slow and careful :,)
4 weeks! Damn,I just signed up to my first one in like 10 months and Im nervous haha. So goodluck with the training and hope everything goes injury free until then. 🙌
haha to be fair I signed up months ago, but didn’t take my training seriously bc I wanted to do too many things 😅 and congrats on signing up for your first! which race is it?
@okbrinty ah,I get you. My Adhd brain can relate to that. 😅
I signed up to the Perth running festival(Western Australia) in October.
Jeah i believe in you. And it is the attempt that counts. My motto is: slow and steady wins the race. i did a marathon last year in 5 hours without being as consistent as I wished for in the preparation 😅
def using that motto 😅 my only goal is to cross the finish line haha
Ok, you're worse than my new running buddy she signed up for a marathon with 16 weeks including Xmas holidays (so zero training). She once ran a half back in 2019 so nearly 6 years ago and was definitely not fast. But to give you an insight into her mentality, last November she'd signed up to compete in a Hyrox pairs event unfortunately her partner had to drop out will the lame excuse of being heavily pregnant. Rather than dropping out (as it was days before her 50th birthday) she convinced me to take their place 5 weeks before, foolishly I hadn't Googled what a Hyrox event was. Silly me. We only had time two training sessions prior to the event and honestly we were just hoping to finish.
Now, how does this link to the marathon? Well I'm a bit of a runner not a gym goer hence I'm dragging her around as doing a sub 2 hour half is nothing for me. In the last 3 weeks she's gone from struggling with a 5k run under 30 minutes to we did 15km in 1:44:29. I expect by the end of January will be closer to 1:30 and we'll starting on basing longer runs on time rather than distance. She knows now it's gonna hurt but like embedded RTOS it's balancing power and process efficiency, she needs to understand what 4 hours of running feels like.
Back to the Hyrox story, as both of us are over 50 and had very little training were fully expecting to be last or not finish within the time limit therefore knew it was a matter of balanced effort. We played to strengths; I did the bulk of the endurance work and she did the movement tasks. We were the last to complete the event which spurred us on to nearly sprint the last 1km, leaving everything out there. Everyone cheering really helped , we felt so tired but so happy we'd finished. Only when someone reminded us it was a wave start it dawned us, we didn't just manage to finish we'd actually over taken several of the younger competitors that had gone out to hard and struggled over the line.
The lesson is; understand what you are about to do, prepare the best you can and remember to run your own race at your own pace.
so cool, thanks for sharing your story :,)
Best advice I've received and keep sharing with others is.
Don't run the first half like an idiot and don't run the second half like a coward.
Oh I’ve never heard this one! I like it
@@okbrinty Think the other advice I could give is just to take each step you can and if it's particularly painful just think, this step is the best step I can do right now and the next step will be the best step I will be able to do right now.
There's so many mind games you can play with yourself to help you get to that finish line.
Truly think you will get there !!
Maybe I'll end up doing a Marathon now before the end of the month lol. Been tempted.
Good luck.. what's the worst that could happen :) Just subscribed.. this should be entertaining !
LOL we’ll found out!! and thank you :))
I’m a new runner about to start training for my first marathon. Strength Training will help your hips! (Clamshells and side leg raises) Good luck!
I need to fit strength training in my schedule 😭😭 and eee exciting I hope your training goes well!!
Need to strengthen hip flexors and glute medius and glutes to helps with hip pain!
gonna try to strengthen them as much as possible in 4 weeks LOL
@@okbrinty I think adding a little mobility strength exercise as a pre-run warmup since your already stretching would do wonders!
Another TH-cam video by someone with no respect for the marathon.