Comeback kids wrote:
We should have a thread just for comeback attempts, followed up by a "whatever happened to" post. I've seen a few of these where a former collegiate runner gets ambitious after being out of shape, maybe posts how well things are progressing for a few weeks. And then radio silence.
I had a similar thread about a month ago, asking about what a reasonable goal for my upcoming marathon should be. Settled on 2:34 and promised to respond after the race. Had a crazy race-day experience where I was on pace for 2:34 with 5k to go, then suddenly/inexplicably began to violently puke several times and limped home to a 2:37.
I tried updating the thread (only about 2 weeks old), and was met with a message that said something along the lines of "LRC combats spam and this post will not be allowed. If this is in error, email yadda yadda yadda with this reference number and explain how this is not spam." Stuff got busy at work and I never got around to it. I wonder if that happens often.