I signed up for Berlin after finding out my friend Brian would be going there and running. At first we were only going there to cheer him on and catch up after not seeing each other for several years. Then, after a bit of contemplation 2 minutes I decided I was going to race as well. Being Berlin, one of the six major marathons, getting in would not be easy. Having not run a marathon in 8 years, meant I would not have any sort of qualifying time and Berlin is super hard to qualify for anyways.
This meant I needed to run for a charity or find another way in. This felt like the perfect match in that I could run Berlin and at the same time give back to others. The only challenge was that I needed to get in shape. Before Berlin, I was fortunate to have another goal that I used as a base for the race.
This event was an Ironman I followed a fantastic training plan from myprocoach and hit my goal perfectly. During all my training for this event, I noticed that my running was getting better and better.
I felt like I could run faster than I had ever run in my life and I was super excited to test my legs in a marathon again. I finished my This meant that my legs ended up taking much longer to recover and I could not earnestly start my marathon training until August. I signed up for another myprocoach training plan and dove in with 8 weeks to go.
I ended up only missing one training run, and that was in the first week as I was still recovering from the ironman. My last few weeks, I was running the best I had run in my life and felt amazing every long run. Now it was just to taper and race. The last taper week started with catching my first cold in over a year, a cold that stuck with me through race day.
