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Tag: marathon training

  • Melrose Sunday Long Run Four

    Sunday Long Runs continue in the heat of summer!

  • When 15 feels like 22 miles

    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…

  • Boston Marathon Training 2018 5 Weeks to go

    Boston Marathon Training 2018 5 Weeks to go

    The Boston Marathon is rapidly approaching! How is your training going? I was away for business last week and only managed two treadmill runs. One was 6.61 and the other was two miles. Not much but better than nothing. Boston Marathon Training on the Road Training while traveling can be a challenge. Running shoes take…

  • 18 Mile Sunday Long Run

    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.…

  • Boston Marathon 2018 Training

    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…

  • Medford Long Run

    Medford Long Run

    The Melrose Running Club has a Sunday Long Run program for spring and fall marathon runners. In 2017 my marathon was in December and well after the Sunday Long Run program ended. Without an organized program I had to come up with my own runs and one was the Medford Long Run.   Medford Long Run…