Reflections Ep89: Story of how 3 young rock star women went from 'Non Runner' to Marathoners

Bhavna, I'll start with you in the next question, which is when you look at your training journey thus far, throw some lights on one or two highlights and one or two lowlights that you've experienced thus far.

Highlights.

I think the biggest one I could think of is the first ever time that I crossed the three miles, the 3.1 mile benchmark, right? So it was my first 10K plan.

It was like, what, four weeks into the plan when you kind of have to do that weekend long run, which is the three miles.

And the weekend before that, I'd done two miles.

And I thought, there is no way I can go past two miles.

There's no way I'm getting to six.

But I don't even know if I'm making it to three.

And somehow three felt easy.

And I think that's the lesson that I learned throughout this is just because the one run doesn't go perfectly, like you're still inevitably going to feel better.

Like it's going to get better.

And three felt magical.

And I think maybe that's the first time I probably felt what you consider runner's high, right? And I didn't know it at the time.

And it was like, I can go on forever and ever.

And I think that was a very cool experience.

And of course, crossing the finish line for my first half where I just, I didn't know my body could handle it.

I didn't know my, mentally, I think you have to be mentally strong to cross that finish line at 13.

And I can't even imagine 26 yet.

So eventually I'll give input on that.

But crossing the line at 13 miles is in itself you have to trust your body and you have to trust your mind to keep going even when it wants to give up you need to like just push it to keep going and I think realizing wait I can do this I can do this was very amazing and that's what keeps me going even now because even now if I have a bad run I know I did it once before and I know it'll keep coming back low moments probably you know the knee hurts and the ankle hurts and You've had a very long day and your brain is just telling you, hey, I'm stressed.

I don't want to do anything.

I just want to go to bed.

Or the 4 a.m. runs and the 4.30 runs when you know you have a full day, so you have to do it at 4 in the morning.

Those are probably the hardest runs to do.

But overall, it all works out.