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Two weeks ago I ran a half marathon in Lisbon. New PB. Top 2.5% of women finishers. By any objective measure, a result worth celebrating.

For the first twelve hours after the race I couldn't access any of it. All I could feel was the gap between where I finished and where I'd planned to finish.

And then I caught myself doing the exact thing I know better than to do. Comparing my internal experience to someone else's external result. Measuring my reality against an imagined version of events.

It's the same trap that shows up everywhere in your 20s and 30s. It just wears different clothes.

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