Tag: Boston Marathon
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When 15 feels like 22 miles
It’s now taper time for Boston Marathon runners. Our Sunday Long Run program is in it’s last few weeks and the miles are dropping off rapidly. Last week for Long Run Twelve, we ran 22 miles from Hopkinton to Boston College in Newton. This week we dropped down to 14.8 miles which at this point…
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18 Mile Sunday Long Run
Boston Marathon 2018 training continues. This week we an 18 mile Sunday Long run in the cold and rain. Welcome to New England in February! 18 Mile Sunday Long Run Last week the official long run was 14.3 miles, but I cut it to 10 miles since it was my first long run in weeks.…
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Boston Marathon 2018 Training
Boston Marathon 2018 Training so far I’ve run The Boston Marathon seven times over the past fifteen years. The Boston Marathon was my first marathon and the second race I’d ever run. For my first Boston I trained less than three months and was absolutely clueless about running. I managed to finish in 5:11 in…
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Taper Time 2016
I’m in my first full week of taper time, and I’m felling a little better. Last week I had a lot of stuff on my mind. I’m behind on my training and my fundraising, and time is running out! I knew these would be issues going into this, but it became very corpreal last week…
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Big Long Run
This Saturday was the longest of the long runs before Boston. We had a convoy of cars take us out to Hopkinton for the 21.5 mile run to Boston College. Big Long Run We have spent the past twelve weeks building up to this run. Prior to this run, our longest had been 20 miles.…
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March for Homes Continues
Boston Marathon Training Continues It has been three weeks since my February Wrap Up post. It has been an extremely busy three weeks, but I have managed to get a few miles of training in. Taxes are not due until April 15th, but I had to get mine done early so that I could complete…