u/rdutel

Wondering where I could work with disturbing anyone?

Right now, I the Crowne plaza Republique is a safe bet. Same for Novotel/Mercure hotels

Would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks :)

hi! i'm a slow marathon runner, I ran Paris twice... It was awesome and terrible :)

> I've been thinking about quitting and self-doubt for marathon runners.

So, I went down a rabbit hole...

I read tons of old reddit posts. Mostly the ones about missing a week of training, coming back from a niggle, or the "am I too slow to even attempt this" spiral. I expected the anxiety to be about the training itself. It mostly wasn't.

The thing that came up over and over wasn't "what workout should I do." It was some version of did I already ruin this, and can I still finish.

People seemed to have the plan handled. Strava, PDF training plan or other apps...

What they didn't have was any way to tell whether they were still okay?

Few patterns I noticed:

• Missing a single week felt WAY worse than it actually was. A lot of "I've blown the whole block" over what was (objectively) a minor gap.
• Almost nobody worried about pace for its own sake. It was always pace as evidence of whether they belonged out there at all. In other words, "can I DO it?"
• The fear peaked at weird times. Not the hardest weeks: taper, and race week, when fitness is highest BUT there's suddenly nothing to do but think.

What I'm actually curious about, and that's why I'm posting:

When you hit one of those low patches, like a missed week, a bad long run, the taper anxiety... where did that go?

did you tell someone, write it somewhere, post here, or just sit with it alone until it passed?

I ask because it seems like there's a whole emotional side of training that every tracking app ignores completely, and I'm trying to understand whether people handle it some way I'm not seeing, or whether it just goes… nowhere.

really want to hear about that.. including if you think the premise is wrong and the anxiety stuff is overblown? we're all different :)

Thanks!

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