Wow what a weekend! When it comes to excitement, Boston does not disappoint. It was fun, stressful, hard, glorious, all of those things rolled into one. Where do I even start? I flew home late last night–there was a medical emergency onboard–a runnner no less–so we ended up landing a half hour early. That was [Read More]
Reminiscing
With you-know-what a mere days away, I’ve been thinking alot about the whole odyssey last year and thought I’d share some pics as well as Dick Beardsley’s course commentary and a few words of my own as my Boston experience played out. If you’ve got nothing but time on your hands, the entire 2009 Boston [Read More]
One Last Week
One week from right now I’ll be riding the infamous bus to Hopkinton. Never in my wildest did I ever imagine I’d be doing that. Never. Funny how life works sometimes. Dare to dream. I am distracted, disorganized, preoccupied, not getting around the blogosphere the way I should so I apologize for that. Since the [Read More]
Odds and Ends
The AftermathEaster was great. Afterward not so much. PB eggs are probably not the best taper food. Easter grass isn’t the easiest thing to cleanup, especially after slogging running 20 miles. I found this mess in Thing 2’s room. What I failed to capture for posterity was the dogs furiously chewing as many jelly eggs [Read More]
40 days…
40 days left until the Boston Marathon. 40 days for me to get my act and my running mojo together. The way I see it, I have:the rest of this week3 more weeks of solid traininga 2 week taper I did 1/2 mileage last week, 3/4 mileage this week (and I cut out the walk [Read More]
Training Recap
Boston Training Week #2 is complete! 39 milesThe week went like this:Monday: SRDTuesday: Yoga class and Speedwork: 800m repeats. These were hard but tame compared to last week’s mile repeats.Wednesday: 10 miles. This is the ‘extra endurance run’ I’ve added to my plan. It was great until about 8 miles, then became somewhat leaden.Thursday: 8 [Read More]
100 Days
100 days from now I and 24 thousand and some of my running cohorts will be toeing the line in Hopkinton for THE BOSTON MARATHON!!!Yes the day is incredible and auspicious and yes the course is historic and challenging and yes the crowds are THE BEST, but to me what matters most is the journey.The [Read More]
Taming the Monkey Brain
I’ve known for some time now that occasionally I am prone to negative self-talk.Since acknowledgment is the first step in recovery, I’m gonna out myself here.As you probably know, my focus has turned to Boston training for just over a week now. The uber cold weather, coupled with the fact that I operate on toddler [Read More]
It’s a Jungle Out There
Registration opened for March Madness, the horrendously hilly 1/2 marathon I’ve done every late winter now for 3 years and counting. It’s small and bare-bones swag wise: a field of 1000, no medals, a shirt for the first 200 only, and weather that has not exceeded 24 degrees but it’s allure has grown exponentially. Last [Read More]
Disconnected
Breaking News: My toe will be heading into the new decade naked….a New Year’s Polar Plunge of sorts as Fugly Betty toenail decided to break free just hours after my first Boston training run. That’s right she’s gone. Done in by mile repeats. The kids and I were in the produce aisle no less, between [Read More]
