Before taking off this morning, I checked my inbox and saw this email from the Boston Athletic Association concerning Monday’s race. It contains some great advice about how to avoid hypothermia when you are running, and how to treat somebody who is suffering from hypothermia. As such, I have copied it here. April 13, 2007…
Photo by preedHeartbreak Hill is the last of four hills in Newton and is a recognized landmark in the Boston Marathon. If you ask any runner why it is called that, they will be sure to tell you it is because it breaks the hearts of thousands of marathoners every year as they are faced…
Last night, I got an email from the Boston Athletic Association warning about the likelihood of heavy rain and winds during the Boston Marathon. This may put a slight cramp in my sub-2:40 goal for the race. After reading about that, Ima asked in the comments: I may not know much but it would seem…
Obviously, the Boston Marathon is not going to be rained out. The weather will have to be particularly bad in order for them to cancel the race. However, it is looking more and more likely as though my goals of going sub 2:40 are going to have some further complications. Wednesday, April 11 – As…
There is (less than) one week to go until the Boston Marathon, and I set a new PR today. It is amazing how much easier swimming is when you don’t work very hard in the day(s) before the swim. This weekend, I only ran 17 miles and averaged around 7:00 minute pace. When I got…
The Boston Marathon is about a month away, which means that this week and next week I will be winding up my training and then starting to wind things down before the race. The original plan this weekend was to run the New Bedford Half Marathon. I ran it a bit shy of 83 minutes…
Would you use tobacco if it was going to cost you $20,000? Do you think that you could kick your habit for at least the duration of a baseball season? The manager for the Boston Red Sox, Terry Francona, is (quite literally) betting that he can. He needs to abstain from using any sort of…
I went to watch the Boston Indoor Games this evening, and it was great. There was a lot of really good competition, and we got to see numerous meet and national records, as well as a world record 5k. Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopa absolutely crushed her old mark of 14:32.93 set two years ago. She…
I recently found the Boston Marathon Qualifying Times Chart and Predictor, a simple web application that tells you what you need to focus on in order to run a qualifying time to run the Boston Marathon. There are some brief instructions and a chart of the qualifying times for each age and gender. You enter…
While I would still prefer to run a different marathon, I can’t really afford to travel very far and I do have a beef to settle with Boston. It is my slowest marathon to date. My plan is to make it my fastest after the next Patriot’s Day has passed. For the past few years,…