{"id":16278,"date":"2012-02-03T14:45:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/?p=16278"},"modified":"2020-02-27T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T21:40:53","slug":"bq-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/bq-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boston-Qualifying Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cWould you like me to give you a formula for success? It\u2019s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.&#8221; &#8211; Thomas Watson, IBM<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I just came across this quote in a blog post\u00a0by Eric at Roc the Run. The post is about Eric&#8217;s dedication to qualify for the Boston Marathon, no matter how badly he has to fail in order to get there. For me, it was an incredibly moving post to read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The best part? Eric is not even close to qualifying right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know that <em>please-let-this-be-over-before-I-puke<\/em> feeling that it takes to run a 5K PR? Well, to qualify for Boston, Eric would need to hold his current best 5K pace for an entire marathon.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what? I think he will do it.<\/p>\n<p>How can I say this, when I don&#8217;t know anything else about him? Because his post grabbed hold of my soul and shook it, the way a piece of music, a line in a favorite book, or the smile of your child does, when you recognize in it something that is purely, unmistakably <em>you<\/em>. <!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>This is the mindset that it takes to BQ<\/h3>\n<p>A lot of people have asked me how in the world I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/boston-marathon-qualifying\/\">qualified for Boston<\/a>, when my early marathon results showed nothing that could be mistaken for even slightest bit of natural talent for running.<\/p>\n<p>To answer the question, it&#8217;s simple to list the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/qualify-for-boston-marathon\/\">steps I took<\/a> to stop getting injured and eventually get faster. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/180-steps-per-minute\/\">Proper cadence<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/foam-rolling\/\">foam rolling<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/track-workouts\/\">speed workouts<\/a>, long runs that approached goal pace.<\/p>\n<p>What takes much, much more explaining &#8212; and without which the other stuff wouldn&#8217;t have ever had the chance to happen &#8212; is the mindset that was required.<\/p>\n<p>The hardest part, I tell them, was to actually believe, after I finished my first marathon in a painful 4:53:41, that somewhere I still had a 3:10 in me (the Boston-qualifying time that I had naively penciled in as my projected finish when I registered).<\/p>\n<p>I told myself that I was slow because my training was weak due to injuries. &#8220;Once I figure out how to keep my shins healthy and complete a full training program, then I&#8217;ll qualify.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three and a half years later, I figured out how to keep my shins healthy, and I ran my second marathon &#8212; a full hour faster than the first. Finally, I felt like I had really &#8220;run&#8221; my marathon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reality struck when I realized I was still 43 minutes away from Boston, and my ace had already been played.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Where the heck was I going to find another minute and a half per mile to shave off?<\/p>\n<h3>Be willing to fail, again and again<\/h3>\n<p>In a way, it was like those cults you hear about every so often, the ones who publicly predict a doomsday date in the weeks ahead. They fully believe what they&#8217;re telling everyone &#8212; but then what happens when the date passes without so much as a thunderstorm, and they&#8217;re proven indisputably wrong? They simply find a miscalculation, revise their prediction, and go back to believing again.<\/p>\n<p>That was my trick too: with each subsequent marathon, I found another reason to grab onto, in order to convince myself that <em>this one<\/em> would be my Boston qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s different between this mental sleight-of-hand of mine, and that of the end-of-days cult, is that my evolving belief was backed up by slow, but steady, progress. Real progress, the kind that comes from &#8220;being doubled over on my knees, sucking wind at the end of another 400 meter repeat,&#8221; as Eric correctly imagines his qualifying will require.<\/p>\n<p>And so I put everything I had into qualifying for Boston. I read books. I learned new ways to train. I incorporated more speedwork, more hills, more tempo runs, better nutrition. I told all my friends that I was going to qualify, and that they should come watch me to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Not someday, but this time. And I believed every word of it. What happened?<\/p>\n<p>I failed.<\/p>\n<p>Then I failed again.<\/p>\n<p>And then I failed again.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, one time, I didn&#8217;t fail. At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/wineglass-marathon-recap\/\">Wineglass Marathon<\/a> in October 2009, I ran my BQ, after seven years of trying.<\/p>\n<p>Five failures, one success. But that success is what I&#8217;ll remember when I&#8217;m 70 as one of the biggest victories of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Eric&#8217;s post resonates with me so strongly because, in just a few lines, it captures perfectly what it felt like to be so determined and so focused on one thing &#8212; to know that this huge goal, which should have seemed impossible, was instead inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>If running Boston is on your bucket list, then I suggest you read Eric&#8217;s post and adopt that mindset too.<\/p>\n<h3>If you want to run your BQ&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>THIS PROGRAM IS NOW CLOSED.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Announcement time! For the past six months or so, I&#8217;ve been working on a project with my friend Jason Fitzgerald from Strength Running. In that time, we&#8217;ve put together a huge resource we&#8217;re really proud of, and one that&#8217;s entirely devoted to helping runners qualify for Boston, like I did and like Jason did. (As a 2:39 marathoner, he had a little easier time with it. :))<\/p>\n<p>Our project is called Run Your BQ, and we&#8217;re really close to finishing it up. In a couple weeks we&#8217;re going to accept our initial group of members. Registration will only be open for a few days, so that we can get in there and help our first members make progress towards their own BQ&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds like something you&#8217;re interested in, and you&#8217;d like to sign up for the list to get updates about Run Your BQ and be notified when it&#8217;s about to open, you can go here to do that.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Jason wrote a great post yesterday on his blog, called <a href=\"https:\/\/strengthrunning.com\/2012\/02\/qualifying-for-boston-running-a-bq-marathon\/\">Qualifying for Boston: The Thrill of Running\u00a0 BQ Marathon<\/a>. He also gives a few more details about Run Your BQ in it. Go check it out!<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/s-timestwo\/\">Susanna Bolle<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWould you like me to give you a formula for success? It\u2019s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.&#8221; &#8211; Thomas Watson, IBM I just came across this quote in a blog post\u00a0by Eric at Roc the Run. 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