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Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
***Sujen***
Sujen - please don't beat yourself up about what happened, although I can totally sympathize with the feelings of disappointment and frustration. You should be proud that you stuck with the training and know yourself and your body so well to know when it's no longer smart to continue. I know too many runners who pushed too much and too hard (including one woman who passed out at mile 23 at another race), and it's just not worth it. 16 miles is a major accomplishment in and of itself. I hope you have a good recovery - maybe with your plantar injury you should see a sports med dr?
And congrats to YH - that's an awesome time! Rest up and treat yourself to all sorts of nice things. You earned it! 
Re: ***Sujen***
Aww thank you so much for your words!! (*tears actually welled up in my eyes!)
Hubby keeps telling me that he's really proud of me and that he wouldn't have even done it this year if it weren't for me. I'm trying hard to dwell on the positive side of everything, but yes, it is hard. You are your own worst critic.
Good point about the plantars...haha. My feet suck. Especially after these last 6 months...i wonder if they can handle another year of training? Hehe..i think that my mind is stronger than my body ;D
Good job Krisitianna! You did awesome. Maybe we can *meet* in the near future!! Totally on board for Iron Girl next year, if you guys decide to run it again!
Hi Sujen - just wanted to echo Kristianna's post. I think the hardest part of doing a marathon is actually training for it - committing all of that time and energy to doing something is amazing. Just think about how many miles you must have run in the past couple of months!! Probably like 50 times the length of a marathon.
Especially if you've been having injuries, I would say just take some time off from running altogether and then regroup in a couple months. A couple years ago I was training for a marathon then hurt my knee about a month before the race. I was devastated, having put in months of training and committed so much time to the effort. But I spent a couple months not running - mostly doing a lot of swimming - and then next year I was able to finish it injury-free!