Totally get this. After a couple of failed BQ attempts quite publicly documented on social media etc, in 2016 I went to Edinburgh Marathon which I hadn’t shared with anyone other than close friends of family that I’d be doing. There was no pressure even if that was imagined pressure it still has the same effect. I got my BQ.
Ha! Super nice, thanks for sharing this. I always got that sentence in my head: "No one cares you run marathons" which is actually true. Also, everyone has their very own struggle with their goals and are mostly busy balancing their own "pressure" ;-) I ran my sub-3 marathon PB when not even I, myself, knew I would run a marathon on that day, haha!
I do think there should be an option to opt out of live race tracking at the big marathons. Nothing worse than having a bad race and imagining strangers watching your tracker grind to a halt.
That's actually a great idea! Privacy and data security is a huge problem at most events anyway. Name, age, finish time, club/sponsor... all publicly accessible for basically everyone, even decades back in time ;-)
Totally get this. After a couple of failed BQ attempts quite publicly documented on social media etc, in 2016 I went to Edinburgh Marathon which I hadn’t shared with anyone other than close friends of family that I’d be doing. There was no pressure even if that was imagined pressure it still has the same effect. I got my BQ.
Ha! Super nice, thanks for sharing this. I always got that sentence in my head: "No one cares you run marathons" which is actually true. Also, everyone has their very own struggle with their goals and are mostly busy balancing their own "pressure" ;-) I ran my sub-3 marathon PB when not even I, myself, knew I would run a marathon on that day, haha!
I do think there should be an option to opt out of live race tracking at the big marathons. Nothing worse than having a bad race and imagining strangers watching your tracker grind to a halt.
That's actually a great idea! Privacy and data security is a huge problem at most events anyway. Name, age, finish time, club/sponsor... all publicly accessible for basically everyone, even decades back in time ;-)