THE MENTAL BATTLE OF A MARATHON

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]I got so in my own head about everything. I was like, "All of this training's for nothing." Cuz it felt like and I I I I mean >> Which is such a silly thing to say.

[00:00:08]>> Of course.

[00:00:08]>> And you know that.

[00:00:09]>> is the reality.

[00:00:10]>> ran a marathon. You got a PB.

[00:00:11]>> Yeah, fine. But everyone listening to this knows what it's like when you go into a race with a goal and an expectation of yourself and you like you to yourself fail.

[00:00:20]>> I think people just don't realize how much of a mental game the marathon is because so many times I've ran races or done marathons and my watch or my training and everything showed that I could have got a sub four or a 4:15 and I've got just under a five or in my half marathons I was predicted to get a certain time and I didn't. But so many times I've let my mental take over. I've got anxious or put too much pressure on myself. This is the first race where I literally had a conversation with myself and I was like, "Trust yourself. Don't make excuses for yourself.

[00:00:57]Be proud of yourself and let yourself do it." We both wrote it on our hands. I wrote trust the work. You wrote trust it.

[00:01:02]>> Just trust it, yeah. That was not planned. Yeah, I know.

[00:01:06]>> that. It was just quite cute. So many times I've like thought that I believed in myself but like really I didn't.

[00:01:11]Yeah.

[00:01:11]>> Like I really didn't. Whereas with this race yesterday I actually did fully believe in myself.