CIM 2025 - 2:34:28 (-4:01 PR)

CIM Pre-race

Shakeout

Last tuneup before CIM

Everybody from Copenhagen knows Danielle

[1:18:03 -> 1:16:25 negative split] So THIS is what it’s like to not blow up! Executed my strategy better than planned. Stuck with women’s OTQ pack to start, then left earlier than planned at mile ~10 to chase Chip Scarinzi and stick around for miles 10-18. 
Chip kept dragging me to 5:4X miles, and my body didn’t disagree. I got to mile 19, realized I felt a lot better than I usually feel by then, so I decided to just keep the aggression and belief up, and continue unloading.
Getting through each of the last 8 miles was its own separate sigh of relief, though I was still scared of suddenly losing my legs as I have in the past. I started to feel a little heavy around mile 22, but I just kept taking it mile by mile and praying I’d hold on. Finally at mile 26, I breathed my final sigh of relief and figured I’d be on the way to a sub-2:35.

Really happy with where I could get to over these last two months, and this is more of a sign of my deep support system than anything else. I did work hard, but I ultimately do best when my people encourage and believe in me— so I just did what many loved ones conveyed with their support that I could do.
…So I have a lot of people to express gratitude for here:
- Firstly, thanks Justin Williams and Unseen Run Club for convincing me to do CIM again and pulling strings to get me back in (after I gave up in October and gave my original bib away.)
- Thanks Jacob Milburn for pulling me in and becoming my primary training partner (and honestly coach) since October, and helping mold my body into the one I had today.
- Thanks Justin Wu for helping me plan my race approach, constantly supporting, and keeping me looking up.
- Thanks William Makinen for taking care of race weekend logistics. (And shoutout on the sub-2:25 today)
- And thanks everybody else who cheered me on throughout this build & on race day, for believing in me more than I believe in myself these days, both inside and outside of running. 
Truly, if I only had myself, today wouldn’t have come close to happening.

New York, here I come.
(1. NYC Marathon 2026 time qualification, my primary job today.
2. And flying out tomorrow!)

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CIM 2025 - 2:34:28 (-4:01 PR)

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Last tuneup before CIM

Everybody from Copenhagen knows Danielle

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