Immediately after the Berlin Marathon, I was eager to go out and race again. I guess that's how it is for most runners. So, I registered for the Prague Superhalf 2025. I had heard great things about this course and the country and I was super excited. My Prague Training I dived back into training with 6 months in hand and boy it was going really well. I even did a 3K time trial at 3:45 min/km back in January. I was feeling fast and strong! (You can check out the video I posted on my YouTube channel on this link: 3K Time Trial Video .) But right after that, in February 2025, I picked up a niggle which was too sticky. It forced me to tone down my workouts a lot. During the entire of March, I barely did any speed workout and restricted my runs to easy pace or a comfortable 5min/km pace. Anything beyond that was causing my injury to flare up. So, with that background, I entered the race in Prague. I had resigned to the fact that life doesn't always go the way you want it t...
It has been a few months since I ran the Berlin Marathon 2024. I did achieve a PR of 3 hours and 16 mins, thereabout. It was about a 7 minute improvement over my previous best in the Amsterdam Marathon 2023 (3 hr:23 min). However, I was left with a deep sense of dissatisfaction. Weird, right? In this post, I am going to list out my learnings from the Berlin race and also list out why others in my experience were better. 1. Rushed Expo experience Usually in all expos, my wife and I prefer to enjoy the atmosphere, take pictures, create memories for ourselves and hunt for deals as well. In Berlin, there was hardly any room for us to pause and watch. At one point in time I stopped in front of a stall and a lady bumped into me and shrieked at me, "What's you problem man?" Well, she could have seen me stopping and diverted her tracks as well, but the fact that she didn't see me stop meant she was probably in a rush too. Everyone was in a kind of a rush. Well, there was t...