Another reason to look forward to Hyannis (just 31 days from now). According to a recent note from the race director, “This year we have two of road racings greatest ever ‘American Superstars’ attending as our special guest – 4 time Boston & New York Marathon winner Bill Rodgers & 1972 Olympic Marathon Gold Medal [...]
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Well, here I am, about five weeks out from the marathon at Hyannis, and I found myself over the past week running through all the same mental equations and vacillations I did before Portland – how long should I make my longest long run and when should I start my taper. The books and Web [...]
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Last winter I trained for a half marathon. My longest run was about 13 miles. No problem. Loved the training. So much so that over the summer I trained for a marathon, and became obsessed with the long, long run. Those near mystical two to three hour runs through Southern New Hampshire that carry you [...]
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Recovering from this morning’s 19-miler (first five before the sun came up, ugh), with coffee and catching up on a week’s worth of posts from the various running blogs I follow, I noticed a trend: many stories about snow-running related tweaks or recurrences of old injuries, etc. It’s a catch 22 – running on the [...]
It’s still snowing. Been doing that since yesterday. And it was about twelve degrees when I woke up at 5:15 this morning. It’s pretty likely that this morning’s long run, training for a winter marathon that or no, would have been in the gym, on a treadmill watching television, if it hadn’t been for the [...]
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I swapped my weekend long run from Saturday to Sunday because I wanted to give a tweak in my calf time to finish healing up before I pounded on it for 16 miles. Good plan, except Saturday afternoon just before we left for Mass, I got a call from a good friend who was passing [...]
Continue reading about There are days when you really want to run; then there are days like today
Seven hundred and fifty cold, snowy, sneaker driven miles. That's roughly the number I'm going to log between now and the Hyannis Marathonon February 22. It will be my second marathon (the first was Portland, Oct. 5) and this time I'm aiming to run a Boston Qualifying time (3:15). Not that I didn't want to run [...]
Continue reading about 750 miles to Hyannis: Committed to 26.2 number two
As I start the first runs of my next marathon training cycle, I take a moment to remember those initial, painful days after the first one. The memory has faded; this video helps bring it back…
I could not have asked for better day, or a better course, on which to run my first marathon, the Peak Performance Maine Marathon. The morning was clear and blue, about 45 degrees when I shed my fleece jacket and lined up for the start. With all the adrenalin and excitement, it felt perfect. We’d left [...]
It's four a.m., breakfast has been eaten and a first cup of coffee drunk. News read. Gear rechecked. In about 30 minutes I'll wake up Kris and my sister Ana and we'll head out for Portland, Maine. At 7:45 a.m. I'll start running my first marathon – and it's hard to describe just how excited, [...]
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