310. How to Race Your Best Marathon with Peter Bromka

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You can be in the best shape of your life and still miss your marathon goal if you don't execute properly on race day.

So how do you take months of training and turn that fitness into your best possible marathon?

In this episode of the Healthy Runner Podcast, I sit down with 2:19 marathoner, running coach, and writer Peter Bromka to break down how to race your marathon for peak performance.

Peter shares lessons from years of racing, coaching, studying, and writing about the marathon. He also includes why this distance is so difficult to get right and what separates being marathon-fit from actually executing a great race.

In this episode, you'll learn:

- What to do (and avoid) during the final 24–48 hours before your marathon

- How the first 3–5 miles should feel so you don't make the classic mistake of starting too fast

- What to focus on during miles 6–18 when you're feeling good but still have a long way to go

- How to approach the final 10K when the marathon really starts to hurt

- Mental strategies for when your brain starts telling you to slow down or stop

- How to respond when you fall off goal pace without letting one bad mile turn into five