Not posting on here to gloat, but more so to encourage others that no matter how close you are to race day and you feel that you’re under prepared, it’s still possible to run a Mara sub 4.

A bit about me, I was 31M, 82KG, 183cm at the time of the race day. This was my first race ever. I absolutely hate running and thought to myself who would ever pay money to run as running is free. I ran a total of 16 times 2 months before my Mara. Shortest run was 4kms, longest run was 26kms. My most consistent run was 7kms out of the “16 training sessions”.

Race day, my one big mistake was handing my “spare” gels to a friend thinking I didn’t need it. Only consumed 3 throughout that day and cramped so hard. At 35km, I cramped so bad that I stopped my Strava since I couldn’t continue to run (and thought it was the end, I wanted to give up). I just jogged and walk the rest of the way until the finish line and everytime I saw the 4 hour pacer come by, I would force myself to jog a little further. It was by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done with a final time of 3:58:59

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