The GMS Queen City Marathon in Regina, Saskatchewan, was my sixth full marathon in 2023 as part of my ten Canadian Marathon Running Challenge. I reduced my personal best (3:44), which I ran at the Beneva Montreal Marathon in 2022, by 24 minutes to a time of 3:20. I ran my first sub-four-hour marathon at the 2022 Beneva Montreal Marathon and have since been running sub-four marathon times.
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Running a personal best felt good as I have been putting in the hard work by increasing my mileage, averaging 100 KM per week in the past 6-8 weeks. My new personal best of 3:20 proves that hard work pays off. I am getting closer to some of my marathon running goals: Qualify for the 2025 Boston Marathon (3:05) and run a sub-3 hours times. I know how to achieve these goals; I need to trust the process and keep showing up daily.
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The GMS Queen City Marathon in Regina, Saskatchewan, had 4050 Participants, with 2211 Women and 1762 Men participants. To run this new personal best, I had to put in a lot of training work to get this time, and there is still more room for improvement. I dug really deep to pull it up, and I learnt so many lessons about myself, how strong I am, how resilient I can be and ultimately how I can achieve anything that I set my eyes on doing.
OVERALL PLACE | 26/361 |
GENDER PLACE | 23/254 |
CATEGORY PLACE | 10/82 |
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Meditation
- Daily Calm with Tamara Levitt -It’s Like This
“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- To find peace, we need to be flexible with our circumstances.
Traveller: ‘What kind of weather will we have today?’
Shepherd: ‘The kind of weather I like.’
Traveller: ‘How do you know it will be the weather you like?’
Shepherd: ‘Having found out, sir, I cannot always get what I like, I have learned always to like what I get. So I am sure we will have the weather I like.’
Happiness and unhappiness are in the way we meet events, not in the nature of those events themselves. – Anthony de Mello
- Daily Jay with Jay Shetty – A Lasting Sense of Worth
- No one can get real lasting self-worth from what people tell them or even what they tell themselves. A true sense of self-worth comes from action and showing yourself who you are. What we say is powerful, especially when we are going through a struggle. If you don’t expressly believe something, self-talk will not change much.
- We believe we have meaning, value and purpose when we do things that do have meaning, value and purpose.
Podcast
- ARRAY: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay (2021) | How I Built This with Guy Raz
All the best in your quest to get better. Don’t Settle: Live with Passion.
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