2010 Boston Marathon

Yesterday’s run up in Boston went way better than what I was expecting, and even better than what I was hoping for. I finished in 2:53:57, a 6:38/mile pace and a personal best by almost four minutes. That was good enough for 713th out of 23,126 runners. Even more exciting was that I ran [...]

4 Days to Boston

This morning was my last real workout before Boston. I was calling it the “dress rehearsal” even though I didn’t go so far as to wear the same shoes or clothes that I’ll be wearing on Monday. The biggest thing was that I wanted to get in 5 miles at 6:45/mile, a.k.a. marathon [...]

8 Days to Boston

I may have over-tapered a bit this week. I finished with only 35 miles, making this my lowest mileage week since October. Part of that was intentional but part was just the result of life getting in the way of running. I planned to take Monday and Friday off but run between [...]