I completed 11K Standard Chartered Charity Taipei Marathon, the result was 3 minutes short of my goal.
- KM 1 – 6 was crowded, most people are energetic.
- KM 7 – 8 had bridges and narrow roads, it became crowded again.
- Both easily slowed everyone.
The problem wasn’t the lack of ability. The problem was the easily fall into the crowd. The excuse levitates the pain to fight through the crowd. Excuse sounds much easier.
Our brain defaults to avoid pain. I could iterate by:
- Adapt to the environment: calculate the congestion into the plan.
- Change the environment: move up to the faster crowd.