This is just a quick update now that I’m home from Providence. I ran my race plan perfectly, at least through the half marathon. I was at 77:24 at halfway. Then I blew up. My left calf got a little tweaked around 15 miles in, so I slowed down and changed my gait a bit,…
This is just a reminder that today is the last day to predict what my time will be in tomorrow morning’s marathon. Last year, I won the marathon in 2:43:27, which was pretty exciting. Going into the race this year, I have 3 goals. Break the course record. Set the course record. Run faster than…
Mike Brooks has now been running for 9 days and has gone 469 miles. I’ll let Denise provide today’s text update: Mike has now completed 469 miles 31 to go . He’s having a lot of back pain which is making it difficult for him to walk at all right now. He is getting a…
Mike Brooks checked in and he’s now run for 8 days. He’s been enjoying the weather for the past few days. He’s now run 427 miles, keeping pretty close to his average of 50 miles per day with 49 miles in the past 24 hours. He’s looking forward to getting to the 500 mile mark…
Well, race weekend is here. The Cox Sports Marathon is on Sunday morning, so I’m going to hold a contest of sorts this weekend. Last year, I won the marathon in 2:43:27, which was pretty exciting. Going into the race this year, I have 3 goals. Break the course record. Set the course record. Run…
Mike Brooks has now been running for 7 days, and he’s definitely looking forward to the end of the next 3 days. Today he claims that he’s run 178 miles, so my guess is that he has run 378 miles which would have given him another 44 miles in the past 23 hours (he checked…
Mike Brooks has now set a 6-day PR after going 334 miles over the past 120 hours, going 50 miles in the past 24 hours. That’s 14 miles further than he ran when he did the 6-day version of the race in the past. Mike’s friend Andy has agreed to donate $500 if Mike makes…
Mike Brooks has now been going for 120 hours and has covered 284 miles, 48 of them in the past 24 hours (as of noon today.) He had a little company yesterday as his brother, Walter, came down to visit: “Its incredible because he really got into marathoning at a late age. He amazes me,…
Mike Brooks has now completed 96 hours and has gone 236 miles before the 6 day racers even got started. He has run an average of 59 miles per day, so the 46-48 miles he ran over the past 24 hours has barely cut into the cushion he’s built up. The weather continues to be…
The Boston Marathon is quite an experience, and this week I’ve read quite a few reports that capture what it feels like to be part of it. This is Mike Girouard’s view of the marathon from the first corral. I met Mike at the 2009 Boston Indoor Games. If you’d like to know more about…