That was utterly terrifying and I regret having joined you (comments welcome)

[azrivest]

Congrats, that's a great time!

 

[SimbaMufasa321]

Congrats!! I have considered doing the LA marathon next year. Do you think its a good experience/course?

 

[RuntheMouse]

Nice write up, congratulations on the great time!

Happy belated birthday!!!

 

[NYC_MW]

Congrats!! I have considered doing the LA marathon next year. Do you think its a good experience/course?

I would definitely recommend, especially if you're relatively local. There seem to also be a lot of local running groups that train together and offer support. And next year is the 40th, so that should be special. @Marebear_runs also wrote a short recap in the 2024 Running main forum thread.

Only thing is to make sure to have a plan if you'll have a cheer squad as the tracking app is terrible

 

[NYC_MW]

woo hoo! Sounds like you had an awesome race!

I did! Thanks for all the journal support along the way

Awesome job, congrats! Sounds like a fun race weekend. And happy belated birthday!

It definitely was, and thank you!

Congrats and happy birthday!! Love all that bling!!

Bling is what drives my racing (and running) haha.

Congrats, that's a great time!

Thank you!

Nice write up, congratulations on the great time!

Happy belated birthday!!!

Thanks for reading

 

[SimbaMufasa321]

I would definitely recommend, especially if you're relatively local. There seem to also be a lot of local running groups that train together and offer support. And next year is the 40th, so that should be special. @Marebear_runs also wrote a short recap in the 2024 Running main forum thread.

Only thing is to make sure to have a plan if you'll have a cheer squad as the tracking app is terrible

Thanks for the rec! Hopefully it aligns with my schedule next year =)

 

[NYC_MW]

It's been a minute, but I've still been plodding away. Took a week off after the marathon, then back into maintenance mode, loosely following schedule of one long-ish run, one workout, and two easy runs a week. On advice of PT, have been trying to add in more strength work since mileage is lower now, but I'm so bad at "remembering" to do it. Hopefully she won't be too mad/disappointed when I go back in July .


~1 more month of maintenance mode before starting Berlin training in early June. Was pleasantly surprised to find that the Chicago plan I had bought on McMillan was saved (I guess once you buy it, you get to reuse it forever), so am going to see if it works better the second time around. I did change the values to use the metric system though, so I can get my brain used to seeing km markers rather than mile ones.

 

[NYC_MW]

Thanks for the rec! Hopefully it aligns with my schedule next year =)

Will definitely be coming out to cheer next year, so lmk if you do end up running it.