149: I Still Ran a Marathon: Redefining a Tough First 26.2 at Shamrock w/ Chris Field

Chris Field spent high school playing football, where running was something he had to do rather than something he chose. That changed in 2024, when partway through a weight loss journey a friend of his talked him into running a 5K, and his wife took one look at his face at the finish line and told him it wouldn’t be his last race. Spoiler alert: she was right, and within six months he’d run his first half marathon. After six of them, he decided to stop waiting to feel ready and signed up for the Shamrock Marathon in Virginia Beach.

Training brought 4:30 a.m. midweek runs in the dark, a few lessons about easy pace that only made sense later, and a 22-mile long run that ended with the biggest sugary drink Starbucks would give him. Then a sinus infection hit during the final week of taper, but Chris still went into race day set on breaking five hours, right up until the sun came up over Virginia Beach and turned it into a day nothing like the cold winter miles he’d trained on. It ended up teaching him more about himself than any training run could, including just how stubborn he really is and why the way you get to the finish line doesn’t change the fact that you ran a marathon.

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