Wow

... uh, so I started the run thinking, "Well, you know, just have the best run you can and see if you can get closer." And so I was, like, doing a little math to entertain myself.

I'm like, "If you make up four minutes the first eight miles", which I had actually done in '94, but then I had kind of slowed down and just run the same pace as her.

So I'm like, "Do that again and then do it two more times, and you'll catch her at mile 24." So I was kind of, you know, it was motivating to, to do that, and especially the first eight miles I did make up four minutes.

So I'm like, "Well, that's significant.

You know, you're getting there." And so I just kind of, uh, kept that up.

For the middle eight miles, she, um, it, it was only, like, two and a half minutes I believe, so I started falling behind.

Hang in there," because that's sort of the, the resilient mentality that you need, I think, to survive this race.