His Girlfriend Told Him She Planned To Skip-Gallop Through A 5k, So He Left Her Behind, And Then She Ended Up Screaming And Crying At Him

This 36-year-old man and his 31-year-old girlfriend have been together for about two years and currently live together.
He recently picked up running as a hobby and has been really enjoying it. A few months ago, he was looking up runs to participate in nearby and decided to sign up for a 5k in his city. He paid the necessary fees and began training for his first run.
“I mentioned it in passing to my girlfriend that night, and she asked if she could come too. I was psyched about the idea of running a 5k with her and said yes, but warned her that she would probably want to start training because I was going for a sub-27-minute time, which might be tough for a complete beginner,” he explained.
To his pleasant surprise, she told her that she would like to train with him as well. Thinking that this would be fun, he tried to get her to join him on his 5:00 a.m. run, but she wasn’t feeling up to it and said she would train later in the day.
This habit continued until, after two weeks, he finally convinced her to get up and go on a morning run with him.
However, she was exhausted and miserable the whole time, and as a result, he didn’t get much of his usual training in.
The day before the race, he asked his girlfriend if she was really up for it all, but she claimed that she was.
She told him that she would use a technique that she used to use in middle school, which she referred to as a skip-gallop.
“I asked her to demonstrate what a skip-gallop was, and she showed me this bizarre side-stepping gallop as if she had casts on her legs. I told her it seemed like a really inefficient way to run, but she insisted it always worked for her,” he stated.

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On the day of the race, she used her strategy immediately and was already exhausted by the two-minute mark.
His girlfriend started asking him if he would slow down and walk with her, but he had done too much training for this race just to walk it.
He apologized, told her that he loved her, and left her behind in order to do the best he could in the run. He ended up running it in 26 minutes, which was beating his goal!
However, this high wouldn’t last for very long. He tried calling his girlfriend after the race was over to find out where she had gone, but she didn’t pick up.
Soon enough, he realized that she had left him there, and he had to take an Uber to get back home. Upon entering their place, he was met with crying and screaming, his girlfriend extremely upset that he ditched her to finish the race.
He attempted to calm her down, saying that she brought this on herself, but she was not interested in anything he had to say about the matter. She ended up giving him the silent treatment for the entirety of the following day.
Do you think that he was wrong to leave her in the dust at the race? Or do you think this was reasonable, considering his goal and the work that he had put in? Should she have been more supportive of his success?
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