A month out from the Phoenix Marathon, scared and undertrained
Antonio Nguyen, building Quant100, answers "Who's the one person you'd love to hear from after this video?" on 2026-11-03.
We're running our first marathon in about a month, and I'm hyped for it. Oh, man. I'm shitting my pants right now. Yeah. Honestly, I am too. I'm not gonna lie. It's kinda a crazy thing to think about running twenty six miles, but, you know, that's kinda why we did it in the first place. And being a month out, this is kinda like the time where you're supposed to be hardest at your... Or, like, the training is supposed to be, like, at its peak right now. I wouldn't say my training is at its peak at all. I've been running, like, once a week, but we're doing, like, at least long runs. Mhmm. I think our last week, we did thirteen miles Yep. Thirteen point two. Did the half. I did eleven minute pace. I'm not calling. That was killing me. Yeah. And, luckily, that's that's pretty slow because I'm trying to do at least ten. Yeah. Ten minute pace, but I gotta I gotta work on that. It's not easy. I will say. And it's getting a lot more daunting. I guess the realization of actually having to be there in a month's time is really kinda scaring me right now. Even with all the amounts of running that we have done, the long runs, the short runs, everything, I'm like, man, twenty six miles could kill me. No. It's the Phoenix Marathon. Right? Is that the biggest one here in Arizona? Yeah. I'd probably say it's the biggest one in Arizona at least. I know, like, the... I've been seeing, like, Chicago Marathon content. The New York Marathon is happening. Boston Marathon is... I think Boston Marathon is coming up. Don't know. I know the New York one happened yesterday. Yeah. Those guys did a good job, but I'm pretty sure you have to qualify to go to some of those. Yeah. We're... I'm not qualified. Yeah. I'm not I'm not hitting the six minute in five minutes. I'm not doing all of that. Not gonna lie. My ultimate goal is just I wanna complete with dignity. I don't want to be barfing, puking, passing out in the middle of the road, or even stopping. I mean, most importantly, I just wanna keep going the whole time. That's my goal. That's why this this time right now is, like, peak training because you wanna make sure your body is primed and ready for the marathon. You definitely don't wanna get injured right now. If you get injured, it is so hard. And just putting all the time and effort, have everything start to get put together around this time is really, really important. How have we been able to manage not only building a business, keeping up with our social life, but also training for this marathon? Yeah. Or have we even been able to do that successfully? I definitely will say if it it gets a lot... I I do get lost in the sauce with it, at least personally. I don't know about you, but Yeah. It's something to where something always tends to lose focus. But it's... I I feel like one of the big things that training for some, like, this big a task gives you is kinda having to have that discipline and that discipline towards balance with making sure you're training on a regular basis, making sure you're still doing all your stuff on the responsibility ends of things with the business and whatnot. And I will say the one thing that probably has been falling short the most is the social aspect of things. More often than not, I get into a mode where I'm just, like, I don't need to go out or I don't even really wanna go out because I'm like, okay. Like
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