When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.
You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
I'm not a runner. I don't run.
I try to avoid the temptation with time as a total indicator for what my possibilities are for the marathon. It's the not the best indicator, but it's more how you feel, how you cover the distance and how you are able to do the training afterward.
Marathons don't come to you overnight.
Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.
The natural urge when running a distance is to push harder and finish sooner - to race against time. Every second behind a deadline is a little defeat.
A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
Marathon runners set explicit goals.