Dgrant @ PEC
Dave, I already wished you congratulations, but I wanted to repeat that I was so happy to see this result yesterday. It made my day.
I loved your description of the race, fighting through the pain. It's the only way to do a marathon, I think.
You do have even better times ahead, I'm sure. Something you're doing is working now.
I loved your description of the race, fighting through the pain. It's the only way to do a marathon, I think.
You do have even better times ahead, I'm sure. Something you're doing is working now.
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What a trip! Nicely done Dave. I'm hoping there's a shot of the game face you had on before this one. What a huge dent into your marathon time! You'll be grooving on this pb for a bit and rightly so. Superb!
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Wow! What a nice way to prove to yourself you do have it in you! That's incredible! Congrats!
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Simply put Dave, Fantastic!
Congratulations! Relish the PB. You have plenty more of those in you...
Congratulations! Relish the PB. You have plenty more of those in you...
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Now that you've got that "monkey" off your back I've no doubt there's bigger & better things ahead !!
And I love how you "Asked it to hurt more" - only you would think of turning it around that way !!!
Congrats, congrats, congrats !!!!!!!!!
And I love how you "Asked it to hurt more" - only you would think of turning it around that way !!!
Congrats, congrats, congrats !!!!!!!!!
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rundmc wrote:Congratulations, you definitely earned it. It's been a long time coming, hasn't it? There's a BQ in your future.
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babysteps wrote:I've been thinking about your "welcoming the pain" approach since I read your report. I'm going to try to remember that in the future. Thanks!
I was thinking about that on my run today too. Whenever it started feeling tough, I thought, what would dgrant say?
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Re: Dgrant @ PEC
dgrant wrote:Today, when my body started hurting I ASKED IT TO HURT MORE. I armed myself with dozens of curse words, and I used them.
Awesome report, awesome PB! Have I said awesome yet? Seriously, that's an incredible achievement! Way to kick ass!
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