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Category: Training

  • Boston Running Traffic

    Boston Running Traffic The map below shows running traffic in the Greater Boston Area over the past seven days. The heat map covers activity over the past 7 days through the Saturday before the Boston Marathon. Only runners with Garmin watches are included in this Boston Running Traffic map. The Esplanade area between the Mass…

  • Last Long Run

    This past Sunday the Melrose Running Club had their last long run of the season. The long route was 12.5 miles and the short route was 7.1 miles. The long route took us over the Fellsway Hills twice! On the way out I charged up the hill and practiced running on my forefoot. There were four…

  • I’m over trained?

    I’m over trained? I feel like the laziest marathon runner in the world. Sure I do my long runs and put together plans that I never follow. I never run 50-100 miles per week. People who work at the marathon run those miles. I’m too lazy for that. How could I possibly be over trained? Last…

  • Miles for March

    Miles for March My grand total is 131.58 miles. The plan was to run 189.2 miles for March. To do that I would have had to more than quadruple my February miles. Not a good idea. I managed to get in 3 out of 5 Club Sunday Long Runs. The two that I missed were due to races. I still managed…

  • Boston Running

    Boston running over the past 30 days I pulled this map off of Garmin Connect. It shows all of the running activity of runners with a Garmin watch over the past 30 days in the Boston area. Like most activity maps, red highlights the greatest amount of activity. The orange and red trail on the south…

  • Where did all the Sundays go?

    Where did all the Sundays go?

    As the Sunday Long Run season has progressed, my Sundays seem to have disappeared. For the past month all of our Sunday Long Runs have been over 16 miles. This means about three hours of running time on average. Then there is the time to get to the run, time spent hanging out after running…

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