What’s the worst distance for you, and how have you overcome a mental block about it? As always, I want to hear your weekend triumphs and woes below the line
The night before my half marathon on Sunday I was reading an article in this month’s Runners World posing the question, “Which is the hardest distance?” The answer, as you might guess, is that it depends: what you’ve trained for, what your body is adapted for or suited to, and whether or not you prefer the eternity-in-a-few-minutes of a 800m or the drip-feed torture of a marathon.
For me, though, for the last year or so it’s been the half marathon. On a bad day, it combines the “god this hurts already and it’s only two miles in!” of a 10km with the mental agonies of a marathon (“STILL seven miles to go??”). I’d developed a bit of a block around them, and it was by far my ‘weakest’ distance when it came to race times vs expectations.
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