Apologies if someone’s already said this but I just had to post this as soon as I saw it, I’m kinda unexpectedly pissed that she’s put “with an injury” in her title as if she’s bragging about it
Yes it’s a brilliant achievement and credit to her for working around the injury etc, but it just doesn’t need to be in the title especially as she did it in by far the quickest time of anyone I was following during the marathon so it’s not even an explanation really (I haven’t watched the video so not saying she is promoting it per say just don’t get why it needs to be in the title)
i was just about to post a screenshot of it because what on earth!! i did the marathon too and didn’t get the time i was hoping for, partly because i had to dial back my training a bit due to my knee playing up, a very time demaning/energy draining couple weeks work wise leading up to it, and an underlying ED myself so it’s completely rubbed me up the wrong way.
i was so obssessed with trying to get a good time but wondered if it was realistic given my struggles with food, i went through a phase of reading articles/listening to podcasts about runners with eating disorders and the overall concensus is that it’s very common to run well your first few seasons despite poor nutritional habits, but it will
always catch up with you eventually. part of me really wanted to have that ‘good season’ despite being ill, but i saw a physio a few weeks before who basically said if i don’t get my
tit together i’ll develop arthritis alarmingly soon. i hope she gets her
tit together too, because she clearly loves running and could probably be very, very good, but that won’t happen if she causes herself permanent damage. not being able to run when you love it so much is heartbreaking.
