Lily’s Reviews > 26 Marathons: What I Learned About Faith, Identity, Running, and Life from My Marathon Career > Status Update

I’m learning from this book that being a marathon runner is, in itself, a marathon, not a sprint.

VERY emotional learning that his unknown injury that made running unbearable but doctors said wasn’t real was a pelvic stress fracture that didn’t heal whilst he tried to run through it. He still went on to run many more marathons and my word this is the story I’ve needed after a year of unknowns from my own pelvic stress fracture

Every single one of this guys full marathon times is faster than my half marathon PB but it’s so well written that I feel genuinely bad for him finishing New York marathon in 8th position with 2.15.09😂

Helpful to hear this guy say that there is a point during every marathon when you think to yourself “why am I doing this?”

Can’t get over the fact this guy ran 2:12 in his debut marathon and it wasn’t even a good time for him 😂😱🙏🏾
Let me absorb some of this energy…