Back in July, as I was about to plunge into a fall marathon training program, I decided to skip it instead and work on running the same number of training miles, but with a far different goal. Instead of working on distance, I wanted to work on speed. And while the experiment’s far from over, [...]
I love the marathon. The preparation for racing this distance is a rigorous test of mind, body and spirit. It requires discipline and strategy, and enduring the training eases and clears my mind to tackle the non-running challenges life presents. But as I found myself finishing up Vermont City Marathon at the end of May, [...]
Volunteered at the Mount Washington Road Race yesterday… Incredible 50th anniversary race. I worked water before the race and beer after. Hard to emphasize how happy you make people when you hand them a free Tuckerman’s after they’ve just run up the tallest peak in the northeast.
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 [...]
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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.
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