Half marathon

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Last week, half marathon.

Did not prepare adequately. However, jogged the whole thing. Mile ten, left thigh stiff and sore. Otherwise zero physical pain and zero symptoms. Perfect temperature and weather. Nobody bothered me. Uneventful. Heart felt like it was beating out of control. Had a great time. 40, been getting physically weaker and slower. Told self that if I jogged the whole thing and finished on time, would never have to do that again.

Well done shortfatbalduglyman. I've run a few half marathons, it's no small acheivement.

Do you still feel like you don't want to do it again? I'd love to do it again.

Congrats. My heart wanted to burst out of my chest the first few ball hockey games I had, but now it's not quite so bad.

You must be very fit.

I know someone at work who runs half marathons and she goes to the gym nearly every day. She also has a personal trainer. She looks very healthy and has a muscular physique.

You've done extremely well to get through a half marathon without any help. I go to the gym once a week and walk other days but I'm still fat.

What an awesome achievement OP! Great work mate.

Congratulations! That is a great accomplishment many haven't done!

I did do a marathon once that I didn't train long enough for. Did complete it but it was pretty tough. The fact that it was 70 degrees that day didn't help.

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My day job involves heavy lifting. The company gave me a reasonable accommodation because a doctor wrote a note that I am not allowed to lift over fifty pounds. Plenty of employees and customers could not believe how little weight I could lift.

Also been getting sick a lot

So not "fit"

If you made it through a half-marathon, you're more fit than you think. Give yourself some credit.

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Fine, but 2:48 is not a fast half marathon time.

Only one nonbinary competitor came in after me, and plenty of nonbinary competitors and women came way ahead of me. Many of them older than forty

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40 years old. Been getting physically weaker and slower for a long time now. And rapidly getting much worse.

Barely made it to the finish line. Any further and I would have dropped out.

Half marathon cost $210 and my worthless corpse only earns $21 hour. Besides my job is very dangerous. At least five pedestrians got hit by cars while I was at work. Any day now I could get hit by a car. There is no point wasting all that time, money and energy training, just to get hit by a car

Also I could just do my own half marathon, without paying a fee. (And I have done it before). And I choose the time and route. No car. Public transportation that early in the morning, not good enough.

Loved the half marathon, though.

I’ve been curious about completing a half marathon, as I’d regularly do 5K on the treadmill and I do have to remain careful having had knee surgery years ago.

^^Was that a big city half marathon to cost that much? Seems excessive.

The ones i do generally cost around £30 which is what, $40? Just under i think. But they aren't city half marathons, they're trail ones.

I'm going to do one next year, it's been too long and I'd like to get fit again.

Also don't worry about being 40 and slow. I'm 44 and slow. Getting slower all the time. 2hrs and 40 mins is perfectly respectable

today, did the same half marathon as last year.

finished over six minutes faster than last year.

41 years old. thought i would be struggling to finish before the course closed.

felt like low lung capacity. starting early on, legs felt stiff and sore, but no cramps, unlike last year.

during the race, did not go to the litterbox or drink water. after the race, water and litterbox.

nobody bothered me today. zero symptoms, zero physical pain. perfect weather for jogging.

enjoyed the spectators. not too crowded. a spectator remarked that i was the only one wearing a mask.

promised myself that if i jogged the entire thing i would not do it again. $243 half marathon. time, $$$, energy. going to and from the expo. when i tried to pay online, portal stopped working, so i had to talk to someone. and et cetera. as usual, kind of cold in the morning before the half marathon (although plenty of states much colder climate). and so many different bad things could've happened. and felt like having a heart attack.

felt surreal. kind of.

glad i did the half marathon today. not going to do any other races anymore.

races occur in expensive cities. only runners that earn $$$$ can afford to do marathons (or want to do marathons) in their spare time. yes, there are some exceptions, but pattern recognition.

Well done sfbum, on completing and going a bit faster.

I bet you end up doing another one. Those things are addictive.

Congrats SFBUM.