Valencia Marathon 2025
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3:11:08. I pressed hard to keep myself in position to have a good day. But that good day slid out from underneath me somewhere around the 35k mark. I was walking and cramping up when a runner who recognized me encouraged me to follow him in. That really helped save the day. Temps were high (but they didn’t seem terrible at the time) and my carb loading was subpar, and I’m sure there are a lot of little things I could have done differently. But I just don’t think I was fit enough to run 3:05 on this day.
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It’s still two minutes faster than anything I’ve run in the past two years, so that’s a small consolation prize. And aerobically I felt quite strong. There’s just some tweaks to the training that I think can make a big difference (also just repeating what I did this time would also be quite beneficial)
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Disclosures: I came to Valencia on a bib from @sports_tours_international_usa . No one is paying me to make this particular video or to include their brand in this video. No one previewed this before it published