Too Clever Too Fast Too Happy
By Bill McKibben,
The Guardian
| 05. 03. 2003
For the first few miles of the marathon, I was still fresh
enough to look around, to pay attention. I remember mostly the
muffled thump of several thousand pairs of expensive sneakers
padding the Ottawa pavement. But as the race wore on, the herd
stretched into a long string of solitary runners. Pretty soon
each of us was off in a singular race, pitting one body against
one will. For months I'd trained with the arbitrary goal of
three hours and 20 minutes in my mind. Which is not a fast time,
but it would let a 41-year-old into the Boston marathon. And
given how fast I'd gone in training, I knew it lay at the outer
edge of the possible.
By about, say, mile 23, two things were becoming clear. One,
my training had worked: I'd reeled off one 7:30 mile after another.
Two, my training wouldn't get me to the finish by itself. With
every hundred yards the race became less a physical test and
more a mental one. Someone stronger passed me, and I slipped
on to...
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