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A few weeks ago I ran the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge in NYC with 19 of my fellow coworkers. It’s a 3.5 mile race (slightly longer than a 5k) through Central Park in the early evening. The last time I ran it was in San Francisco when I was 23 years old and weighed 145lbs. Back then I finished it in under 22 minutes (06:15 mile pace) and was in the top 100 finishers. This year I weigh closer to 190lbs and hoped to finish around 24:30 (a 7:00 mile pace). In the months prior to the race I had achieved this time more than once during my training. Unfortunately, on race day I wasn’t even close. I finished at 25:57 (07:25 pace) and almost collapsed after crossing the finish line. My problem was that I had only trained on flat ground and the endless, rolling hills of Central Park crushed me. But what really messed me up was a mistake I made after mile 3. As exhaustion set in during the last half mile of the race, I looked ahead and saw what I thought was the finish line. So, I sprinted to

--> A few weeks ago I ran the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge in NYC with 19 of my fellow coworkers. It’s a 3.5 mile race (slightly longer than a 5k) through Central Park in the early evening. The last time I ran it was in San Francisco when I was 23 years old and weighed 145lbs. Back then I finished it in under 22 minutes (06:15 mile pace) and was in the top 100 finishers. This year I weigh closer to 190lbs and hoped to finish around 24:30 (a 7:00 mile pace). In the months prior to the race I had achieved this time more than once during my training. Unfortunately, on race day I wasn’t even cl

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