First Time Half/Full Marathoners - What Are You Nervous About?

[marathonmommy]

1. Having to poop during the race . . .
2. Going too slow for the person I'm running with
3. Finishing last
4. Getting picked up by the sweeper van
5. My knee (which I've had three surgeries on) hurting like the dickens



Ummmmmm, Number One came true (twice).
Number Two came true as she left me before mile 2!
Numbers Three and Four did not happen.
Number 5 was only bad at night!

Curses on Number One which was really a Number Two!

 

[syko]

It's my first WDW marathon, but not for the distance.
My worries are always the same.....mechanical breakdown.
I'm so i'm getting a secound chair, I've allready told my Dh that we are taking both with us to every race just in case.

Well I had a mechanical breakdown in the 1/2 when a lady decided to fall onto my chair, she broke my disk break. I had great fun not being able to use my break!!!!

In the full I had ice problems, skidding and also on my chair, which caused problems with how it ran.

Nothing I could do about either in the race, so I just had to deal with it.

 

[FFigawi]

Okay, you brave marathoners! Hopefully you survived the weather and have fully recovered from the race. Now, tell me how you faced your fears and how you overcame them.

Well, my fear is not having anyone to talk to while I'm running. While communing with nature and checking out the sights is good and all, I find having people to talk to a) makes the miles go by faster, and b) keeps my mind from worrying about almost everything else. I overcome this the same way in every race: either start and run with my friends or chat up people along the way. Runners are a pretty friendly bunch, and I usually don't have much problem finding some to talk to and hang with. I met some wonderful people during Goofy last weekend - a woman going for her first half and her friend on Sat, a friend of hers in the same running club on Sunday. Small world.