Thriving at Every Mile: Running Marathons with Stage 4 Breast Cancer with Anne Keane (@adjewelry)

What does the term at your own pace mean to a woman who's doing what you're doing? What do you want every single person listening to take from your story?

That's a good question.

I think when I think about At Your Own Pace, I think about how so many people that run marathons are so focused on what their time is going to be, if they're going to PR.

If they're, you know, what their current pace time is and all of that, it's like, man, you know, first off, just in the running world, there's so many factors that can throw those things out the door, right? The weather is hot, right? Tokyo is hot.

And I was listening to your podcast and I was like hearing all these people talk about how hot it was.

And I was like, yes, it was hot.

You know, like that something like the heat can completely impact your time.

Right.

So when it comes to at your own pace, it's at your own pace on that given day, that given moment.

And if you are going out and you're logging some miles and it's a slower day because of whatever you're going through.

That's okay.

Forward is a pace.

Movement is a pace.

Like it doesn't matter.

Right.

And I know being a competitive athlete, you know, especially in college competition, I was always competing with myself and, and with others and being so focused on that, that I lost sight oftentimes of the journey and how great the journey can be and what you can learn from it.

And so when you ask the question about what does at your own pace mean, it really means at your own pace.

No one else's.

No one else's expectations.

No one else is setting a bar or, you know, you've got to meet something.

It's like, what is happening in that given day and given time? And if you can get up out of the bed and you can move down the stairs and make it out the door, and even if you're just walking to the end of the street, that's at your own pace and that's okay.

That's great because you made it out the door and you made it down the street.

I'm very humbled by what I couldn't do when I was earlier diagnosed and what I can do now and how grateful I am for that.

So I'm going to run Berlin at my own pace.

And afterwards, we're going to go and do a ton of fun stuff.