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 [...]

When The Numbers Lie

If you were to take a look at my running log, you’d see the paces from the last two days and think that I was taking it easy because of the holidays. Not so. Despite what the 8:34/mile and 9:09/mile paces suggest, they were actually two of the year’s toughest runs.

Yesterday morning, I [...]

South Florida

The last half of my marathon recovery week was spent in Miami and wasn’t quite as light as I’d planned. I took an extra rest day Thursday but ran almost 40 miles the next three days.

Friday morning, I headed out on a run towards Key Biscayne. The bridge was a little farther away than I [...]