Tough race for our team at Applefest. Curt blazed at sub 6s for the first 4 miles, then tore his plantar fascia and limped in the last 2.5. Sheer guts. We still ended up running the third fastest men’s master’s relay time, fifth fastest overall. I avg’d 6:39s over my climbing 6.7 miles. (The race [...]
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 [...]
Just a glimpse from day in the life during winter marathon training. A Saturday 16-mile long run with Curt.
You usually have to give up some sleep/rest time to work marathon training runs in when traveling for business. On the other hand, today’s frigid February New England winds remind of the upside of those on-the-road runs… nice warm 65F mornings on paths like this one along the harbor in San Diego a few weeks [...]
Came across a tidbit in the most recent Men’s Journal (March 2011) that cited a University Hospital of Ulm, Germany, study, saying, “while endurance runners can suffer plenty of bone fractures and joint problems that need rest to heal, they’re able to run through most muscle pain, especially in the upper and lower legs, without [...]
Continue reading about Running through the pain not always a bad choice
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 [...]
It’s been about 8 months since I had to drop out of the Hyannis Marathon at mile 23 with an IT band so messed up I could barely limp. And it’s been about a year since I finished my first marathon, the Maine Marathon in Portland, at 3:19:25, euphoric despite being a bit shy of [...]
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