“[Starting out too fast is] the biggest mistake you can make. I did it in New York even though everybody told me not to. I was feeling good in Brooklyn and I tried to slow down, but I couldn’t. At the pace I was going, I thought I was going to have a great run. But then at the 59th Street Bridge, my hips tightened up. By First Avenue, I was walking for a bit.” ―Barbara Gubbins, owner of the sporting goods retailer Gubbins Running Ahead, who will be a pacer for the 8-minute-miler group for the 2013 ING New York City Marathon, in The Wall Street Journal "Reporter’s Notebook: Pace Yourself" blogs.wsj/metropolis/2013/09/05/reporters-notebook-pace-yourself/
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 11:00:03 +0000
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