Friday, April 07, 2006
An actual running post!
Ran this morning at 5:30 am with Mark. We did the double hill route through Hillsborough. I can't believe it didn't rain on us. This is my second to last week before the big event and I've cut back on my mileage but not the intensity. I should cover about 43 miles this week.
It's starting to sink in a bit. After all of the early morning runs, the gu shots, the rain soaked clothes, the soggy shoes, I am winding down to the EVENT. I read a great article in Running Times Magazine about the Boston Marathon, Beating Boston.
I suffer from the disease called: out like a rabbit-die like a pig. The article does a wondeful job talking about the dangers of going out too fast. Of the 13 marathons I've done, only once, have I run negative split(running the second half of the course faster than the first half) and that was last year in San Francisco of all courses. SF is a really tough course - one of the hardest - yet I was still able to qualify for Boston on it. Go figure.
The family and I will head out of town next week to Boston and take in all of the sites. My wife just informed me my mother-in-law will be joining us on the trip. Monica called me yesterday and asked if I would mind, I responded, does it really matter? It's actually good she's coming along as I tend to be a bit of an asshole right before a big race and it will be good for Monica and my daughters to hang around someone other than me.
I am back to Huddart Park again tomorrow morning and then a nice easy 12 miler on Sunday. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate.
It's starting to sink in a bit. After all of the early morning runs, the gu shots, the rain soaked clothes, the soggy shoes, I am winding down to the EVENT. I read a great article in Running Times Magazine about the Boston Marathon, Beating Boston.
I suffer from the disease called: out like a rabbit-die like a pig. The article does a wondeful job talking about the dangers of going out too fast. Of the 13 marathons I've done, only once, have I run negative split(running the second half of the course faster than the first half) and that was last year in San Francisco of all courses. SF is a really tough course - one of the hardest - yet I was still able to qualify for Boston on it. Go figure.
The family and I will head out of town next week to Boston and take in all of the sites. My wife just informed me my mother-in-law will be joining us on the trip. Monica called me yesterday and asked if I would mind, I responded, does it really matter? It's actually good she's coming along as I tend to be a bit of an asshole right before a big race and it will be good for Monica and my daughters to hang around someone other than me.
I am back to Huddart Park again tomorrow morning and then a nice easy 12 miler on Sunday. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate.
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