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Category: Training
Snowy Long Run
It’s April in Massachusetts, and still it snows! We have had some normal spring weather and a day or two in the 70’s. Most of us thought we were done with Jack Frost. Snowy Long Run This week we began our taper and the Sunday Long Run dropped down to 14.8 miles. I planned to…
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.…
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…
February Wrap Up
In my last post I went over my mileage and training for February. For tracking purposes February ended on Saturday for me. But on the calendar February is still rolling along. Last week I ran a grueling 14.6 mile long run. It was just awful in so many ways. Looking ahead to this week’s 18.1…
February Running 2016
Other than syncing my watch to Garmin Connect, I haven’t been keeping track of my running miles. Now that I have a deadline to be in marathon shape, it’s time to pay attention. February Running In January I ran 63.22 miles. One week I only ran 6.23 miles and two weeks I ran more than…
Marathon Training Begins
Probably the worse run of my life was the 2003 Boston Marathon. I had never run a marathon and was woefully under trained. I had jumped at an opportunity without much thought and had no concept of what I was about to do. The two things I had going for me were youth (38 years-old)…