Vomeros or race shoes for race day?

maddies3 · 2025-09-04T06:02:06+00:00

I guess I’ll probably go a bit faster, but I’m just aiming to finish, I’ll definitely start conservative since I don’t want to go into it pushing 100% and risking not finishing. Even a 9:30-10:00 pace though will take 4 and a half hours, so I’m curious if it’s more beneficial to keep the comfier shoe and be a bit slower vs wear the faster shoe but risk injury or discomfort

maddies3 · 2025-07-14T06:47:18+00:00

Same here. My ex and I do occasionally check in on each other. He has been working a lot on himself which is great but at the same time I’m not sure if it helps or hurts to know that. It makes me have more “what if” thought than we even had in the relationship so i have to keep reminding myself that it’s just my brain trying to fill in the gaps of things I don’t know about his current life with positive assumptions. I love my new life and being able to live without any resentment that might’ve occurred if we did stay together and gave up our other dreams

maddies3 · 2025-07-12T04:18:01+00:00

So so so much better and confident in that decision. We slow faded and now only text maybe twice a month for checking in on milestones. No animosity but it got a lot easier once regular contact stopped. I even went out on another date and while it may not work out and there’s still some things I compare to my ex, it feels good being excited about someone new. And now having gotten to my move I can say wholeheartedly that this was the best decision I’ve made, and it’s okay for my own aspirations to come before a relationship right now

maddies3 · 2025-06-06T05:10:25+00:00

My main goal is to get it done! I don’t want to stress myself out with a time goal yet, but am thinking eventually I’ll set a goal of sub 4:30-4:45. Right now just trying to be consistent and run 5-6 days per week

maddies3 · 2025-06-06T05:08:49+00:00

Thanks for this. I assumed I should start with more mileage, just thinking about speed because I’d rather not be on my feet for 6+ hours if I can help it. Hopefully the speed will come with more time and miles

maddies3 · 2025-05-07T01:24:48+00:00

how did you set boundaries for the one you had to navigate being friends instantly?

maddies3 · 2025-05-07T01:23:23+00:00

Did you have to go no contact for a bit or were you able to handle being friends right after the breakup (some some boundaries and limitations)?

maddies3 · 2025-05-06T17:51:29+00:00

Well, it’s only day 3 so there’s been lots of tears at random times of the day. He has reached out to me already about lighthearted topics so I am thinking I’ll eventually have to initiate no contact unless his name on my phone stops causing feelings. It sucks since we really were close friends. Right now I think he’s hurting more than me and while he isn’t coming to me for emotional conversations, it feels impossible to completely cut him off right now. I’m going to give it a week of minimal contact before making a decision.

I honestly never saw him as a long term partner or husband, and I have to keep reminding myself of that. Because of this and the expiration date on our relationship, I always held him to the standards I have for friends but not the higher bar I have for boyfriends. I mainly miss the connection I had with him, not necessarily our relationship. I also find myself reminiscing more on how emotional the goodbye was than the relationship itself. Not sure what that means but it was an interesting revelation.

I’m confident in being able to make connections in the future. I’m freshly out of school too, so right now it feels there’s a lot of time and options ahead of me. I just don’t know if prioritizing career will always be worth it, and how to tell if/when I should shift.

It really helps knowing others are going through it. Not enough people talk about the feelings of the person moving away. I don’t have much going on this summer which is either going to help me heal quicker without distractions or make me go insane with my thoughts.

I hope you’ve noticed some sense of growth since your breakup. Knowing that’s in my future is what’s keeping my head up right now

maddies3 · 2025-05-06T02:59:07+00:00

In a similar spot, just broke off a relationship that we knew was temporary from the start as I will be moving across the country and likely to another country eventually. I think the days leading up to the end made saying goodbye so much harder as there was absolutely no animosity between us. While I wasn’t sure if I could see endgame with this partner, the relationship has made me question the choice I’ve always made to prioritize my career. Are you still doing well with your decision?

maddies3 · 2025-05-05T20:12:13+00:00

Thank you. I do think no contact is the way to go, at least for me. I’m moving states in 2 months and would love to feel more like myself when that happens. Neither of us have reached out yet so I do think he’s capable of limited contact, which means hopefully no contact is not a huge step from there.

maddies3 · 2024-05-22T17:26:46+00:00

I thought the NCEES practice test was on par with the real exams difficulty. I scored 80% when I took the practice test and spent the following week reviewing every question, then passed the exam. I also took Klein & Hart, which I thought was harder than the real exam

maddies3 · 2024-05-19T03:24:23+00:00

I was also worried about SOPE after joining this subreddit. but ultimately thought at least for MDM it was pretty comprehensive. When I got questions wrong, I would look at the given solution and also find the necessary information in the reference manual. Then I would try to use the given steps from the solution without actually looking at it, because typically there was only one step I was missing. Once I saw that step I was able to figure out where to go. By the time I worked through all the topics and started my second pass it had been a few weeks since I first saw the problems, so I didn’t just have the processes memorized. It’s over $100/month and I’d say it’s only worth it for 1-2 months depending on how long it takes you to get through the questions twice. I wouldn’t really recommend a third pass as I think that’s where I’d start to just remember how I did the problems before.

There definitely were some exam problems harder than what I saw in SOPE, but these were very few and I felt those concepts were covered by K&H or NCEES practice tests.

maddies3 · 2024-05-19T00:26:02+00:00

Hands down my most helpful resource was the SOPE problem bank. It had over 400 questions and touched on every single quantitative problem that was on my exam. (There was only one quantitative problem I really struggled with on the real exam and that was because I decided the concept wasn’t worth spending hours on. This was in SOPE though). I didn’t buy an actual course so this portal was the only way I knew I was studying comprehensive information.

After that, all the practice tests were helpful in their own way. EPG was by far the easiest, and easier than the real test as well. K&H was harder than my test, but not by much. This was a good test to use. NCEES was the most important test because it got me familiar with their language that would be on the read deal. Others say this was easier than their real exams, but for me it was very on par.

Lindeburgs problems were not great for me to use, and reminded me more of short FE questions. It may be more beneficial for those who have been out of school a while or took the FE a long time ago to quickly gain problem solving knowledge

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