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“It’s easy to run too fast at the beginning of the race, so you have to consciously discipline yourself to run at your own pace.”
If a runner starts out too slowly, he will also have trouble, Borgens said. “It is almost impossible to pick up a lot of time at the end of the. race," he said. “If you get off your normal pace it’s probably because, you are worn down so you are not going to be able to pick up the slack over the last few miles.”
Not surprisingly, Borgens said that the last six miles are the most difficult. “That’s what all the trainr ing is for, so those last few miles don’t devestate you. ”
“The middle miles can be draining as well, especially when you start looking ahead,” he said. “When you start thinking 'hurry up and get here 20-mile mark’ you’re in trouble.”
Borgens said he experiences various degrees of soreness after finishing a grueling event, though sometimes the so-called “runner’s high” takes over and the soreness is minimal. “After I qualified (for Boston) in the New York Marathon I was so euphoric that the people who were with me and I walked around the city for hours after the race celebrating,” he said. “But normally, the harder you train, the less you hurt after a race.”
Borgens finished in slightly below 2,000th place in the NY Marathon, a position that may not sound like much until one considers that over 22,000 people were entered in the race, placing Borgens in the top 10 percent of all competitors.
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