Welcome back to Kilometre Forty, I am Mercy Chebet. If you have a first marathon on the calendar, this episode is for you, and if you have done ten, you still know the feeling at kilometre thirty five when your legs file a complaint. Today we talk pacing. Why the first ten kilometres decide the last ten, how much to eat and when, and a small mental routine I use with my athletes for the moment the race gets honest. Then my friend Daniel Kiprop joins me. He has been a pacemaker in London and Berlin, which means running a perfect split for 42 kilometres with a balloon on his back and two hundred strangers trusting him. He has stories. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Let us plan your race.