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113. I Didn’t Meet My Marathon Goal · Eat More Carbs | A Period Recovery Podcast

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This is the Eat More Carbs podcast.
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Hello and welcome back. This is the Eat More Carbs
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podcast. It's Jenna here with Riley.
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We are both dietitians and we talk every Thursday about sports
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nutrition for the girlies. Today I'm actually giving a
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recap of my most recent marathon, which I ran just a
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little bit over a week ago now. So I'm going to be sharing all
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about that. We had a few requests about what
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that actually looked like and how that actually went for me.
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So spoiler alert if you haven't already read the title, but I'm
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going to be sharing all about like the marathon and how it
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went. Before we get into all of that
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though, we're going to do our high and low.
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So sharing about our week, the good and maybe the parts we wish
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to go a little bit differently. And then we're also going to be
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providing our training update. So Riley is training for 1/2
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marathon and then eventually the marathon later this year.
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And I will just be sharing about kind of what life looks like not
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training anymore the week after a marathon.
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So Riley, kick us off high and low before I do.
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High and low. I am really excited about
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today's episode. I get to kind of grill you about
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your marathon. I feel like you're always asking
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me questions and now I'm excited to be asking you questions I
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can't. Wait, let's get into it So.
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My high and low are kind of the same story.
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So this past weekend was Mother's Day, which was my
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second Mother's Day as a mom. It's always fun.
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I'm not a big holiday person so I don't really like to like do
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anything super crazy. But it was really fun because we
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did go to the zoo, which Charlie like loves the animals.
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Her nursery is animal themed and she just loves animals.
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Unfortunately, though, halfway through the zoo trip, this is
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our low She started not to feel great on the way home.
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She threw up all over me. Oh no.
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Yeah, poor. Girly got a little 24 hour bug,
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so it was a little bit of an up and down weekend unfortunately,
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but she is feeling much better now, which is good.
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I used to be like super like throw up adverse.
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Like you throw up. I'm throwing up like and now I'm
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a mom and I'm like, I'm good, bring it on.
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I'm glad she's feeling better. If we're gonna go there in the
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marathon, ask me about that because I think I as not a mom,
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I maybe don't have that same like ability to power through
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when I see throw up. Something happened during your
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marathon. Yes, I'll get to all of that.
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I think it had a lot to do with like conditions and all sorts of
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stuff, so I'll kind of I'll get to it for sure.
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But I'm glad Charlie's feeling better.
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We're doing a lot better today in the baby household.
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How are you? How is your week after your
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marathon? Are you able to walk now?
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Like, how's everything going? Yeah.
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I think the first couple of days were pretty tough.
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Maybe that could be my low was just like how sore my legs were.
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I know I shared on last week's episode I had to like sit down
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to record this podcast because my legs were just so so sore.
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I took a while before I felt ready to do anything, which is
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kind of hard because there's a lot of the rest of your body
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that feels ready for movement or excited to move again.
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It's a beautiful time of year here.
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So just like wanting to get outside and enjoy the outside
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and knowing that I needed to prioritize rest was maybe my low
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because, you know, my brain was probably ready for movement, but
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my body wasn't. And knowing how important rest
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and recovery are after a marathon and not wanting to push
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it is so important. The high of that though, is that
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I did eventually feel ready for my first like training session
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back after the marathon. And it just felt so good to like
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move my body in a different way. And I'm really excited about
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like this next like kind of training block that I have not
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being as much running based and kind of incorporating other
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types of movement that I really love to do.
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So I'm really looking forward to that.
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And that's my high kind of also my training update already, I
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guess spoiler on that I feel like.
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We had lots of spoilers really quick at our high and our low,
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so why don't we just kind of jump into it?
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You ran the OC Marathon. Tell us a little bit about like
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why you chose that race and maybe give us a little bit of
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background on like your race kind of history in the past.
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If you are new to the More Carbs podcast, Jenna is our running
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specialist at RBSN within our period recovery program and she
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is an avid runner herself. So why don't you share a little
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bit about kind of what your running journey looks like?
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I'm gonna like, take us really far back, so I apologize for
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anyone who doesn't really care that much, but I think it's
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important to the story. I actually started running when
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I was in first grade. I got into it because of my dad.
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My dad was really big into marathons and cycling, and I
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think that I caught the running bug just kind of early, so I
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wanted to get into that. Think the furthest I ever ran as
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far as from a club run perspective when I was younger
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was maybe 3 to 5 miles. That was considered a distance
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runner at that young of an age. And as I got a little bit older,
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I started to drift into other sports and found other things
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that I really loved. But I continued to run all
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through high school. When I got to my collegiate
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days, I wasn't really running that much.
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You could say I was just doing it as more of a hobby.
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I stopped doing it from a competitive standpoint, but
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eventually I decided that I was going to run a half marathon.
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There were a couple things that kind of were like popping up in
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life where I decided that I needed a challenge and I needed
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a goal. I never really thought that I
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would be able to run a half marathon, being as the fact that
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most of my life I spent running shorter distances and focusing a
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lot more on speed than I was on distance.
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So it was a big challenge for me.
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And the first half marathon I ever ran, I didn't think I would
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ever run a marathon. I was like, I can't imagine
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doubling back and doing that again, but 1/2 marathon was a
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really fun distance. So I started doing those and
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that's really what became like my intro to kind of distance
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running. As time has gone on, I've kind
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of had an interesting relationship with running and
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the fact that like I wanted to train for something maybe I
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didn't. I wanted to get more into
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lifting. I wanted to try other things.
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Around the pandemic time, I really got back into running
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like so many other people. Gyms were closed, studios were
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closed, and I needed kind of an outlet for activity.
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So I started running again and at the time started running with
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my husband. And then that became something
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that we did together. Long story long that you didn't
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ask for last year We. Went to ask for it.
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This is like the full story. Last year we moved to Arizona
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and we needed to meet people, We needed to make friends.
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A lot of people recommend like run clubs is a place to do that.
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So we went to run club and when we were there a Rep from the
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Rock'n'roll series was there and was like, hey, your run club
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gets 50% off all race entry for a Rock'n'roll series for the
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next 24 hours with very impulsively.
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We not only signed up for 1/2 marathon, but we signed up for
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the full marathon last year and that was the first full marathon
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I've ever trained for and I've ever run.
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I kind of went into that with like no expectations as far as
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how it would go. It was really a challenging
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course. I knew nothing about the course
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map. I signed up.
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All I knew was that I was getting this race that was, you
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know, usually $250 that I was signing up for 1A and 25.
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And we've talked about this before.
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I love a deal, I love a discount.
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So I was like, of course I'm going to run this race like this
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is perfect. After running that, I think I
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kind of got into the mindset of, wow, if this is what it looks
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like when I'm just like trying to finish as my goal, What could
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I really accomplish if I had a goal of a pace goal?
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Which is kind of bringing us to around 3-4 months ago when I
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decided that I really wanted to run sub 325 for a marathon,
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which is a really big goal considering that the first
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marathon I ever ran. You can look bubble my times,
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you can look up all my splits, but my first marathon I ran at a
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342, which is amazing. That's great.
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I felt like I hadn't tried from a pace perspective and I really
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didn't really know what to expect.
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So I was just out there running. But I figured if I really tried
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and pushed speed workout and kind of compared that together
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with my distance training and everything that I knew from the
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past marathon, I felt like it was possible.
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That was kind of the goal. Walking into this.
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If you've looked at the title of its episode, you know that I
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didn't run a sub 325, which is hard because my time that I
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finished with was still really good and I'm still really proud
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of it and it was still a PR, but it wasn't the time that I wanted
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it to be. So before we get into like some
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of the questions, I just want to say if you are going through
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period recovery, if you're working on a goal, if you have
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something that you really, really want to achieve and it's
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not happening right now. I feel that like I relate to
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that so strongly of like having a goal that not only do you want
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so badly, but you want so badly right now.
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And it's so hard to work so hard and put in all the work and then
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not really see the outcome that you were potentially hoping for.
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But it's so important to celebrate the wins along the way
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and look at everything that you've accomplished.
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I mean, gosh, if you would have asked me 10 years ago if I ever
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thought I would have run a marathon, I'm like, absolutely
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not. So all of the things that I've
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accomplished from that point until now, I ran a marathon.
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And like, that's still a big accomplishment, even if it
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wasn't the time that I was hoping for and even if the race
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really didn't end up going the way I wanted it to.
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Well. Thank you for sharing all of
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that. I think it's so easy right now
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with social media and instant gratification like you
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mentioned, where you get into something and you're like, hey,
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I've been like a lifelong runner.
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But you know, before you were training for smaller distances,
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you were doing track and field and you're like, well, I'm
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getting back into running again. Like this will be easy.
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Like I'll be, I'll be fine. And it takes a little bit longer
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than we think it does sometimes. I think it definitely takes
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longer than we kind of think it will with some of the time goals
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that we have because I can hold the pace that I wanted to hold
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for multiple miles. If you read all the forums
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online and it says if you can hold your race pace for 10/13/15
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miles, you're going to be just fine.
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And so I'm like, yes, you're right, I'm going to be just
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fine, but sometimes it doesn't really play out the way you want
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it to on race. Day, I think this goes back to
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your point relating this back to period recovery where if you
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look at some of maybe the generic information online, it
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may or may not apply to you. And every situation is going to
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be different, just like every single race day is going to be
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different. Every single training block is
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going to be different. You can be doing all of the
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right things, it just might not be in the cards for you that
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day, and that's totally. OK.
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Yes, exactly. And so many factors kind of into
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whether or not you end up having like a perfect day or a perfect
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training block. And so many of those factors are
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external. For example, the race that I
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picked, I picked it because it's a net downhill course, but I
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didn't know the last five miles of the race for a gradual
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uphill. That was something that was kind
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of a surprise to me later on. I know that it's really
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important to like look at the course map, figure it all out.
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And there were two large incline hills earlier in the race, but
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this slow gradual uphill, I was like, oh, that's not going to be
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a problem. That's not something that like I
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really anticipated being anything that would impact that
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race for me and it was. So there are so many things that
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like we just don't really expect.
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So let's take a couple steps back.
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You chose the OC Marathon because you, like you mentioned
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it was kind of a net downhill race.
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Talk to us a little bit or share it with us a little bit about
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your preparation for this race. How long was your training
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block? What did training look like?
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Any challenges, any wins that came out of training?
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Race was the first weekend in May.
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I started really seriously training for it in like the
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middle of January and training for me, meaning like every long
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run Saturday was kind of planned out from that point on.
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And my focus switched from a lot more like weight based training
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in between my sessions to a lot more like shorter run sessions
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or speedier sessions or things like that.
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So that's kind of like the timeline.
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I think the biggest set back for me was injury.
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During this time period. I wasn't really as healthy as I
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wanted to be. I got sick a few times and then
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I've also been dealing with a little bit of some like leg
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injury and leg pain. And so for a couple points in
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time, I had to like miss the exact training sessions that I
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wanted to do. And then one run in particular,
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it was a 20 Miller that I had not long before the actual race,
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I had to stop. I had to Uber home because the
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pain in my leg was were so bad and I wanted to push through.
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But my husband was like, this isn't the race.
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Like this is not an important day.
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And wouldn't you much rather go and like actually run the race
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and try versus like push through this and hurt yourself more?
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So that was a really hard like mental hurdle for me to get over
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because because everything was supposed to be like mock race
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day with when I'm taking my fuel, what I ate that morning,
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what time we started and all that sort of stuff.
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And it didn't work out. And so I was really nervous
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about the race, I think because I didn't have that practice out
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as much as maybe I wanted to. That was really, really hard.
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But the good thing about this training block was that I could
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see myself actually getting faster.
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Whereas the first time that I ever trained for a marathon, my
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training was a lot like, OK, I have 18 miles today and I just,
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the goal is just to finish something.
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That we see a lot with our athletes in our period recovery
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program is this idea that they want everything to be perfect.
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But when we look at nutrition, I feel like similar to running,
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there's this perfect and idealistic way that things are
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going to go and there's those things that are realistic,
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right? We can't plan for everything,
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especially things like injury. If there are athletes listening
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who are maybe struggling with that ideal of being perfect
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versus realistic with running or with their period recovery
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journey, what tips do you have for those athletes?
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I'm going to share what my husband shared with me talking
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about whether or not I had belief in myself to accomplish
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this goal. I know that you can do this.
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I know that you have a sub 325 in you.
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But you need a perfect day right now based on everything that's
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happened in order for it to happen.
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The likelihood of having a perfect day is a lot lower than
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maybe we want it to be. But that doesn't mean that what
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you're doing doesn't matter or doesn't count or doesn't like
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mean you can achieve something. Because I know for sure you can
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PR. It just might not be the PR that
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you're looking for today, but that doesn't mean that there
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won't be other opportunities to get the PR that you want.
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And I think that like helped kind of me put it into
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perspective that like you don't just have one chance to meet
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your goal. And just because you've set a
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really big goal and maybe it doesn't play out the way that
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you want it to that time, that doesn't mean that you won't have
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another opportunity to make it again.
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I love this. Sometimes our goals have to
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change. If your goal is to get your
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period back in three months and you haven't gotten it back in
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three months, like let's make it 4 months.
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Like let's just adjust the goal and learn from maybe the changes
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that you made that weren't as successful.
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Yeah, the biggest thing for me was my own self doubt and
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whether or not I was letting that impact my ability to try.
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Because I think that that's our biggest limiting factor when it
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comes to the goals that we said is the doubt that whether or not
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we can actually accomplish something and that can really
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stand in our way as a barrier. So the morning of race day, I
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woke up. We were lucky enough that our
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hotel was quite literally right at the start line.
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But I knew that no matter what, I wanted to try for my goal.
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So I knew that I needed to push the pace.
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That meant the whole time it wasn't like I was going to show
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up the morning of the race and go, you know what, I think I've
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got a race in me that's still a PR, but it's not necessarily a
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325I knew that I had that in me, but I thought, I don't want to
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walk away from this and go, you know what, I wonder what it
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would have been like if I had just tried because myself doubt
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was going to like take over and say, you know what, just adjust
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the goal from the start and see what happens.
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No, I just wanted to try. I still wanted to try.
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And for about 21 miles I held that pace.
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I looked at my husband around mile 21 and I said to him, I got
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this. Like I felt so confident in the
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fact that this was going to go the way that I wanted it to, but
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unfortunately my body had other plans and I don't think it had
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anything to do with my nutrition up into that point.
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I think I did really good practicing what types of gels
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that I was going to take, when I was going to take them, the
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water, everything like that. I had really done like a very
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diligent job of making sure that that was planned out to a way
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that was going to support my goals.
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If you didn't follow along on Instagram, I tested a whole
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bunch of different gels as far as what was the easiest to open,
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what did I like best, what felt best for me, And I ended up
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using the BPN gels. I used both the caffeinated and
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the non caffeinated and I used different flavors to kind of
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help with flavor fatigue and help me get something down.
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Even though I'm not someone who's like gel adverse, I know
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Riley gels are not your favorite in turbine fuel.
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It still gets hard to take them, especially when you're taking so
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many. So even if you are someone who's
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like, yeah, gels aren't that bad, you never know what it's
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going to look like in race day when your body's fatigued, you
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are fatigued and you're opening your 5th, 6th, maybe 7th 1:00
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and you're like, gosh, I can't believe I have to take another
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one of these. So for me, switching up flavors
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helps with that side of things. Talk to us a little bit about
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race day. So what did race day look like?
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What time did the race start? What was your progression?
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How are you feeling during the race?
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You shared a little bit about it just then, but we'd love to hear
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about maybe how you prepared in the morning.
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Race start was at 5:30 in the morning, which is a really early
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race start. I wanted plenty of time to eat
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my breakfast, drink plenty of fluids, and then get out to the
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start line with like minutes to spare before it started.
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And that's kind of exactly what we did.
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My husband and I, I got up and kind of started everything with
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breakfast and coffee and water and all of that sort of stuff.
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And then we walked out to the start line around 525, walked
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out there, walked into my corral and then pretty much went.
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So time from, you know, start a race to my chip time crossing
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the start line was not that long.
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I didn't have a long time that I needed to wait outside and like
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feel cold. The race itself, the course was
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beautiful, like the Southern California, Orange County area,
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what a gorgeous place to like get to run through.
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You know, you have beautiful architecture on one side and
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ocean on the other, so they couldn't ask for a better like
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place to run through. The weather was a little bit
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chillier than we had anticipated as far as from time of year,
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high 40s, low 50s when we started and it was overcast and
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kind of misty the whole day. For me, that's kind of perfect
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temperature. I tend to overheat.
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So I was really excited that we were going to have cloud
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coverage the whole day. I said kind of the first several
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miles I held pace. The interesting thing about
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marathons, which if you've run 1, you know, they're all longer
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than 26.2. So I kind of already had an
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anticipation that this race was going to be long because Garmin
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watches started buzzing first, then my watch would buzz and
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then I would pass the mile marker sign.
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So my chip time still looked like 7-30 ish, maybe 7:45-ish
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for my time, which was still under goal pace.
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So I was good with that. But I already had the
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anticipation that like this was going to be a long one, that my
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watch was going to tell me that I was much further ahead than
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where I actually was. So that's a really important
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thing to kind of keep in mind when you are working towards a
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goal race. Is that you, you need to be
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mindful of when your tracking device is telling you you're
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crossing a mile marker and when you actually are passing that
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mile marker. And then mile 21, when we
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started that like slow, gradual uphill, that's when the 325
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pacer really kept going and I did not keep up with them.
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So I had kind of settled into a good pace that was between 3:25
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and 3:30. 3/30 was running really fast.
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I had started behind the Pacers and caught up.
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So I knew I was under the 325 at that point in time and felt
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good, settled in with like keeping with that one.
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And then at a certain point, my legs were just like, hey, you
18:16
know, those nagging injuries that you've had, they're just
18:18
going to start to spark and you're not going to feel great.
18:21
And at that point in time, it was really hard to kind of
18:24
accept that my body was done, but I knew that my goal needed
18:28
to change. So just like a goal change, like
18:30
you mentioned, period recovery, if it doesn't come back in
18:31
three, like what does it look like when we changed the goal to
18:33
four months And I just said, OK, this isn't in the cards for me
18:36
right now. I know that my pace is going to
18:38
start to slip. So like, what can I do?
18:40
What can I hold on to? How can I change this goal?
18:42
And then the goal that point was just to finish and just to give
18:45
it everything that I had and walk away knowing that like I
18:48
couldn't have done anymore. In those moments when I knew I
18:50
was just like fighting, I needed to remind myself once the race
18:53
finished that like this was so hard.
18:55
And I was still trying to give it everything that I had because
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I knew it would be really easy to look back once I had
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finished. And then like, what would it
19:01
been like if I just kept like kept pushing through like super
19:04
hard, but I just didn't have that in me.
19:05
And at that point, there stopped being as many water stations.
19:08
There were a lot of people standing outside of their houses
19:10
passing out water and apple juice because I think that they
19:12
noticed that runners were having a really hard time and multiple
19:16
people started getting sick on the course.
19:18
There was a girl, she and I were kind of running right next to
19:20
each other. I know that her goal was the
19:22
same as mine and she just pulled off and got sick.
19:24
And Nolan was like, don't look, just don't look at it because he
19:27
was like, I knew at that point if you looked like you were
19:29
going to get sick too. So we had multiple people that
19:31
were peeling off and getting sick.
19:32
So having unfortunate Charlie like scenarios, thankfully I
19:36
made it through. I think the hardest thing was
19:38
when the 3:30 Pacers passed me and my watch told me that at
19:41
that point it was like, congratulations, you finished
19:43
America. And I was like, I'm nowhere
19:45
close to the finish line. So I knew I had quite a bit more
19:49
distance to go despite my watch thinking that I had done a
19:52
phenomenal job. So I ended up crossing the
19:54
finish line at around a 332, which was still something that
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I'm really, really proud of, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted
20:00
it to be. And that's OK.
20:01
Like, what a great accomplishment for a marathon,
20:04
and I shouldn't be upset about that.
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No, I didn't meet my goal, but like, that doesn't mean my goal
20:08
is not attainable for me in the future.
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It just means that it wasn't this race that it happened.
20:12
Well, I'm so proud of you. Like.
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I feel like so many people would have like just given up.
20:17
Like they're like, it doesn't matter because like, I'm not
20:19
going to meet my goal. Like I feel like you could have
20:21
really easily given up or even decided, like not to run the
20:24
race. Like I know you and I have
20:25
talked a lot offline about this and you could have easily been
20:28
like, no, it's not for me. Like we had even talked about
20:31
like maybe you just run the half and you were like, no, that's a
20:33
horrible idea, Riley. Like, no, I'm going to run the
20:35
marathon sometimes. We just have to try.
20:37
It might not work out and that's OK.
20:40
It's OK not to meet your goals and it's OK to adjust the goal.
20:43
I still did something that I wanted to do.
20:45
I can't be mad about that. You still be hard.
20:47
Yeah. I had somebody that actually
20:49
messaged me after the race, which she had competed in, I
20:52
believe she did both the 5K and the half marathon.
20:55
And I had posted something about, like, it wasn't how I
20:57
wanted it to go, but like, thanks to everyone who wished me
21:00
luck. And she was like, you still
21:01
finished a marathon. And she's like, what a great day
21:03
it is to, like, be able to, like, go out and run.
21:06
And I was like, oh man, she's so right.
21:09
You're always living someone else's dream.
21:11
How many people were, you know, me 10 years ago, crossing that
21:15
half marathon line going, I could never do that.
21:18
I could never run a marathon. You can do so much more than
21:20
you're capable of, and you're always living someone else's
21:22
dream. We've talked about this a lot
21:24
with period recovery, but comparison is sometimes the
21:27
thief of joy. Like you just said, you did a
21:30
marathon. Like you PR D, you completed a
21:32
marathon. Again, even if you didn't PR you
21:34
like you completed a marathon. And that is such an amazing goal
21:37
and an accomplishment. And I think it's just so easy
21:40
sometimes to compare ourselves to others.
21:42
And I'm not saying you specifically, but I think
21:44
sometimes like especially like I fall guilty of this is like I go
21:47
online and I look at what other people are running those times
21:49
and are but other people, you know, are up to.
21:52
And then I start to feel really like negative on myself.
21:54
But it's like you're not doing that bad.
21:56
Right. The whole reason that I like to
21:58
run is that it's me versus me. But I do think that comparison
22:01
gets the better of me sometimes when I go online and I see
22:04
people are like, just ran my first marathon at sub three and
22:06
I'm like, that's amazing that they did that.
22:08
That's absolutely incredible. But I start to compare myself
22:12
because I'm like, I've been running for so long, why isn't
22:15
this happening for me? And it's like, well, you first
22:16
ran, you know, your first marathon a year ago, Like you're
22:20
still new at that distance. And yes, I know a lot about
22:23
running because I've been around running for so long.
22:26
But for me personally and what my body knows, it's more
22:29
familiar with maybe 1/2 marathon, maybe a 10K, maybe
22:32
something shorter than it is a marathon.
22:35
And so I'm still new at this and I need to give myself some grace
22:38
because what I did is still a still a great thing and still
22:40
something that I should be proud of and celebrate.
22:42
Well, I'm proud. I was so stressed on that whole
22:45
day. Like my, I was everybody who was
22:48
around me like knew you were running the marathon because I
22:50
was like, I was having secondhand stress because I was
22:52
like, I hope she finishes. I hope she doesn't get hurt.
22:54
Like I hope she's happy, like all this stuff.
22:56
So it is an amazing accomplishment.
22:58
Thank you. Thanks for everyone who reached
23:01
out and asked me to share about this.
23:02
I don't really think that I would have if we didn't have
23:05
such an amazing like RBSN community and eat more Carbs
23:08
community who were just like so open to us being vulnerable and
23:11
sharing like the good and then also the parts we wish had gone
23:14
differently. I'm so proud of what I did.
23:17
I don't think that anyone on this podcast is going to judge
23:19
me for not meeting my goal because I think we've all
23:21
probably set a goal before and we all know what that feels
23:23
like, yes. And also to like you trained
23:26
hard for five months, right? And I think that's one of the
23:30
hardest parts about the marathon.
23:32
It's not even necessarily the race.
23:34
It's like the training and the fueling and all of that mental
23:38
challenge and those mental hurdles that you have to go
23:40
through with training. Yeah, because there are.
23:42
Definitely days when you have to rely more on dedication than you
23:45
do motivation. Same thing as period recovery.
23:48
One thing that you can pretty much like a guarantee when you
23:50
have big goals is that the journey will be tough, but the
23:53
reward will be worth it. Speaking of training being one
23:55
of the hardest parts, what is training looking like for you?
23:59
So I am currently on week 6 of my 11 week block.
24:02
Last week was week 5 which was AD load week.
24:05
This week I'm ramping up my mileage again and I've also
24:09
ramped up my strength training. So that was really what my goal
24:11
was. This training block is just to
24:14
be able to consistently run 20 to 30 miles and be able to
24:18
strength train two to three times per week.
24:20
So that's really what I'm focused on right now in
24:22
preparation for starting my marathon training come July.
24:26
So this week, again, just kind of doing some interval work,
24:29
trying to get faster, just really trying to have time on
24:31
feet and then just really incorporating that strength
24:34
training. So we'll see how it goes.
24:36
It is always fun for me to have something to focus on and
24:40
something to train for. It just gives me a little bit
24:42
more purpose with my workouts. You have a PR goal for your half
24:46
marathon. How are you feeling about that?
24:48
It's. So interesting that you bring
24:50
this up because I feel like there's a lot of that you
24:53
mentioned. I guess that goal setting that
24:55
you mentioned, I really resonate with a lot of that because if I
24:59
get sub 135, I will PR. It's been really interesting
25:02
because I'm using Runna and Runna will tell you a goal.
25:06
It gives you a 5K goal, a 10K goal, 1/2 marathon goal and your
25:10
marathon goal. So basically it says like if you
25:12
were to run 1/2 right now, a full right now, this is what
25:15
your time would be. And then at the end of this
25:17
training block, this is what your predicted time is going to
25:20
be. Run is telling me that I can run
25:22
a sub 133, which I don't know how I'm going to do that, but I
25:27
will report back. And it's just so interesting
25:29
because I'm like, oh, if I get sub 135, I will PR.
25:32
But then like of course now run is like, well, if he gets you
25:34
can get a 133 and like now I need to beat that.
25:37
And it's like, you just need to, like, not get hurt Riley at this
25:40
point. I love that the that your goal
25:42
though is the sub 133. It's been really nice not to get
25:45
sidetracked on my goals. I have finally been able to
25:49
really start training again after being postpartum.
25:52
I have not been able to train the way that I've wanted to
25:54
train for so long. I really couldn't run when I was
25:57
pregnant just because of some complications.
25:59
And I've really starting to feel like my old self again with like
26:02
the running and the lifting. And she's been really nice to
26:04
like start kind of feeling like or my pre part himself, I guess
26:08
you could say. It's just nice to have some
26:09
goals again. I'm so happy for you.
26:11
I know that that's something that's like really, really
26:13
important to you. And it's really, really
26:15
important that like, you feel like yourself in addition to
26:18
being a new mom. Well.
26:19
Thanks and I I resonate with a lot of the things that you
26:22
shared, like I did mention, because even if I don't PR like
26:26
really getting focused on the training and some of this stuff.
26:28
I'm gonna have to re listen to this episode.
26:30
Just as a good reminder. What are your goals right now?
26:32
What are you kind of? You said you were kind of
26:34
dappling in a couple of other areas of training that you're
26:37
interested in after this. Very fun.
26:39
I haven't picked another race yet.
26:42
I'm just kind of like seeing how things go right now.
26:45
It is the we're recording this on the 12th.
26:48
I ran on the 5th. So really haven't had that many
26:51
days off from running, but I haven't run yet.
26:53
And the reason for that is like we've been talking about this
26:56
whole episode is that like I kind of have this high hamstring
26:58
situation. So anything that I am doing for
27:01
training right now is very specific to make sure that it
27:03
doesn't hurt and it doesn't kind of like re injure or re
27:06
aggravate that kind of nagging situation that I currently have
27:09
going on, which is so lovely. But the hardest part, just like
27:13
I shared at the beginning with my low is just like the rest of
27:16
me feels ready to run and so excited to get back into running
27:19
again. But I know that it's really
27:20
important that I take this time specifically to kind of make
27:23
sure that like I'm good to go when I do decide to start a
27:27
training block again. That actually makes me really
27:29
happy to hear because I remember doing an episode on this podcast
27:34
a year ago about your San Diego full and you shared that you
27:38
like, we're like, I don't ever want to run again.
27:40
Like I'm so sick of running. And it's really exciting to hear
27:43
that like, even though you're not ready to run now, you are
27:45
excited to run again in the future.
27:47
Yeah. And it's not that I'm not ready
27:48
to run like I'm ready to run, but my body said slow down.
27:52
We need you to take time to rehab this so that way I can
27:55
come back stronger. But that's the most important
27:56
thing is that reminding myself that it's me versus me.
27:59
But in order to show up that way, I have to be the healthiest
28:01
version. And that includes maintaining my
28:03
cycle, making sure that my hamstring's OK, making sure I
28:05
address my feet because my gosh, I don't know if I can deal with
28:08
another blood blister and like all that sort of stuff.
28:10
So Speaking of, Oh my gosh, how are your toenails and your Nova
28:15
blasts? OK, this is kind of a funny
28:17
story and it was actually going to be one of my one of my like
28:20
high and low combos. So I started wearing the Nova
28:23
Blast, which I really like and I'm done.
28:24
I actually think you might like them too because they have a
28:26
really wide toe box. Oh, OK.
28:29
And I think it might be helpful for your blisters.
28:31
I have been laughing, not laughing because I feel like
28:35
such a dumb dumb. I got sized and I think I was
28:40
wearing too small of shoes before people come for me and
28:43
say, how could you make that mistake?
28:44
I have a soccer player background and when you're
28:47
playing, you usually want smaller shoes so that you can
28:50
have more control, right? You don't want to have any room
28:53
in your shoe. And I just always been training
28:56
like that my entire life. So of course I'm looking for a
28:59
more like snug running shoe. I usually go up like half a
29:03
size, but I probably needed to go up an entire size because I
29:05
wear about a 6 1/2 seven and I got an noble blast in an 8.
29:10
Oh my gosh, yeah, that's quite a difference for you.
29:12
And I've done a couple runs in them and they actually have
29:15
worked. And I haven't really had like
29:16
any toe pain. And again, it wasn't like super
29:18
painful, I just was losing my toenails which.
29:20
Fun. Are they growing back?
29:22
Are you going to be able to get them painted?
29:23
Yes, I am going to get them painted. 1 is just is not
29:26
looking good. One is just it's just on the
29:28
trouble bus. But I at least I should be able
29:30
to get two out of the three. Painters, we'll take that.
29:33
We will take that. But again, like right, you
29:36
either win or you learn, right? So now I know and I would have
29:39
never known before and again, I was doing fine in my shoe.
29:42
I just was having some toenails fall off but I couldn't really
29:45
feel it. It wasn't that big of a deal so.
29:47
But now I know I'm. Glad you're in the right size
29:49
shoe and I'm excited to hear your continued training in your
29:52
new shoes and I'm thankful that you're very fit.
29:55
Talking about things that we're thankful for.
29:57
I'm really thankful that you shared on this episode.
29:59
I know this will be really helpful for a lot of runners and
30:02
just athletes in general who might be going through period
30:05
recovery or just striving for certain goals when it comes to
30:07
athletics. Anyone has questions about my
30:10
race, anyone has questions about time splits, anything like that,
30:12
like I am more than happy to share.
30:14
If you have questions for Riley and I about running, about
30:16
period recovery, about goal setting and what's realistic for
30:19
goal setting for period recovery, please reach out to
30:21
us. You can always leave comments on
30:22
this podcast episode or you can find us online.
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You can find Riley at easy dot sports dot nutrition and you can
30:26
find me at Jenna dot Fischer dot nutrition.
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