▲ 14 r/firstmarathon
From 0 to marathon in 8 months
8 months ago I had abandoned my love for running for about 5 years. One night I decided I had enough.
I signed up for a marathon. And last Saturday I crossed the finish line in 4:22 with no walking.
I built an AI coach to help me train for all these months, and it was really super helpful.
At first it felt ridiculous to run super slow for 3km and call it a workout, but over time the easy runs just started compounding. By the end of the training I was 30% quicker on my easy runs and running 20km was a breeze.
I had dreamt of running a marathon for years, and I always thought it'd be way harder than it turned out to be.
Can't wait for the next one in September.
u/Aggravating-Kiwi-257 — 5 days ago