Last year after finishing the Boston and Vermont City marathons with only a six week stretch between them, I decided to skip the fall marathon, focus on speed and see if that focus could improve a 2011 marathon time. On April 16, I ran the the Gansett Marathon, my sixth overall, and my first and [...]
The April 2011 Boston Marathon sold out last fall in about 8 hours, leaving may fast runners out of the race. (This compared with 10-weeks-to-sell-out period in 2010, the year I ran it.) In response, organizers have rolled out a plan to tighten the qualifying times and change to a rolling registration process based on [...]
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So here’s the upshot on the running-another-marathon-just-six-weeks-after-Boston experiment: I had more fun running Vermont City Marathon than I’ve ever had running 26.2 miles before. The others were very high on the “satisfaction” meter: pushing yourself all out, leaving everything on the course, finishing in a white haze of exhaustion and pain, achieving a PR or [...]
So how do you finish 18 weeks of training, race a marathon, and then turn around and race another just as hard just 6 weeks later? I’ll tell you when and if I’ve finished the second one, this Sunday. Maybe you (or I) don’t. But I think maybe it’s possible, and here are a few [...]
Life and work in the weeks prior to and following the Boston Marathon this year — my first Boston Marathon — were so busy I had little time, until the last few days, for the dreaded taper madness, or subsequently, to write the long, reflective blog post that’s followed my other races. That doesn’t, however [...]
Continue reading about A Belated Look Back At A Wonderful Boston Marathon 2010 Experience
So it may not be until this coming weekend that I have a chance to sit down and jot down some of the many memorable experiences I had at the Boston Marathon on Monday. Tuesday plunged me into a busy work week, and there’s no time for ruminating. The short story is, I finished at [...]
Number pickup at the Boston Marathon Expo at the Hynes Convention Center, Saturday, April 17.
Continue reading about Picking up bib #6500, Boston Marathon
There are 53 days left until the Boston Marathon, and despite a few bumps in road since training started, I’m in a better spot this winter than I was limping into the Hyannis Marathon in February of 2009; in part because I’ve still got eight weeks left to get ready. Between winter injuries, inexperience and [...]
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