Emma Bates

So yeah, that's just where the marathon is headed, I guess.

Yeah, this was years ago at this point, but I remember I'm pretty sure it was Emma Bates said this when she was early on in one of her marathon builds and they had done the first kind of marathon effort training session, which was very low volume relative to what where she was going to be in 12 weeks.

And she said like, it's always mind-boggling to me how unsustainable that effort feels for 26.2 miles at that stage in training and how sustainable it will get in just a matter of a few months.

So it is kind of really interesting to think about how like once you start kind of applying that training to like a massive aerobic foundation, how quickly you actually do start moving the needle on how long you can sustain that stuff versus your first workout back.