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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject:

I ran the Boston Marathon. I'll post pictures and stories when I have them. Given the whole cancer scare and lack of training, I ran my worst one yet. But, since I went into expecting to do that and prepared to do that, it was all right. I put the statistics on the first thread for those that are interested.

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:15 am Post subject:

So it was just a scare, and nothing more, right?

Hey at least you did it, whether or not you got a good time... it can serve as some training for your next one. Congrats!

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 3:25 am Post subject:

Congrats, you nutcase.

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:31 am Post subject:

nattiebo wrote:
So it was just a scare, and nothing more, right?

Hey at least you did it, whether or not you got a good time... it can serve as some training for your next one. Congrats!

No idea yet. We haven't figured out what is wrong with me.

As for the time, I can now spend the next 5 months telling people I plan on cutting almost an hour off of my marathon time...(Goal for Chicago on October 9 is 2:50; I'd like to go under 3:00 and doubt I'll get under 2:45)

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 5:27 am Post subject:

Well, I wound up running the Mystic Places Marathon instead of Chicago this year. I cut almost 15 minutes off of my PR time.

Pictures
Marathon write up #1
Marathon write up #2

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:33 am Post subject:

Did you and Erin run together?

Gotta love those post-race massages... Smile

Thanks for sharing!

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:04 am Post subject:

nattiebo wrote:
Did you and Erin run together?

Gotta love those post-race massages...

Thanks for sharing!

Erin and my sister ran the 10 mile race, which shared the first 8 miles or so before branching off. I passed Erin on my loop out when I was around mile 6 or so and she was at 4-5ish. I was already 4 minutes ahead of pace by then. She had already left my sister behind.

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:40 am Post subject:

More Pictures, this time from the folks that try selling 'em. A few came out all right.

Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject:

I am now 14% towards each state. I ran the Vermont City Marathon yesterday. It was a lot of fun; I cruised in just over 3 hours with way less effort than any of my other 6 so far. I ran 10 minutes faster last fall with a much better distance base and some actual speedwork under my belt, but it beats the times from the first 5. I am fairly mobile today, which is nice.

The course was much tougher than the one last fall, but it was very spectator friendly. I only saw my fiance once during the race, but she got to see me go by 6 times. I wasn't sure how far I had to go because of the way the finish is laid out, though, which meant my sprint finish was only a few hundred yards rather than the half mile I had planned on.

The drummers were really cool.

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject:

Number 8 is in the bag.

The crowds at the New York City marathon really disappointed me, but otherwise it was a great race and a lot of fun.

It was the first time I got to run with somebody. I paced a college friend through his first marathon, and took off from him with 2 miles to go. I think I passed about 2000 people in the last 6 miles, and at least 200-300 in the last mile or two.

It was even easier to run this race than it was to do Vermont City, and I ran over 10 minutes faster. I passed Lance Armstrong at around mile 6, and he looked like he was already hurting. I beat him by a little over a mile.

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject:

did you scream..."Where's your steroids now BIOTCH."

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject:

Webster wrote:
Number 8 is in the bag.

The crowds at the New York City marathon really disappointed me, but otherwise it was a great race and a lot of fun.

It was the first time I got to run with somebody. I paced a college friend through his first marathon, and took off from him with 2 miles to go. I think I passed about 2000 people in the last 6 miles, and at least 200-300 in the last mile or two.

It was even easier to run this race than it was to do Vermont City, and I ran over 10 minutes faster. I passed Lance Armstrong at around mile 6, and he looked like he was already hurting. I beat him by a little over a mile.

Our guest speaker Ed Viesturs was in that marathon as well.

Why did the crowds disappoint you? To small of a turnout or ?

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:10 am Post subject:

Extreme wrote:
Why did the crowds disappoint you? To small of a turnout or ?

I'll have a bunch of articles at Run to Win about different aspects of the race, but I already wrote one about the crowds:

The NYC crowds disappointed me

Not as large as early as I went by, not as loud except in a few places, and half the time they wouldn't cheer when I called them out on being quiet.

Where they were cheering, though, was great.

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:24 am Post subject:

It could be they were cheered out. having several miles of runners go by can beat down the best of us

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:03 am Post subject:

skildude wrote:
It could be they were cheered out. having several miles of runners go by can beat down the best of us

I doubt it. There weren't very many people in front of me. I beat almost 38,000 people.