Not to put too fine a point on it, but that last post … the Boston Marathon Race Report … sucked big Boston clam balls. Besides being boring, bland and banal, it was full of ingratitude. I complained for half a paragraph about my freaking gloves for great diety’s sake! Good grief, it was the […]
2009 Boston Marathon. April 20, 2009. 2:56:20 finish time. Great overall experience, memorable trip with my wife, loved Boston, fun time with Gazelles, marathon best by 2 minutes … a rather disappointing race. My mind is a jumble of thoughts about the race so I’ll just lay them out here and see if they make […]
One last quick post before the race. Laying in the hotel room after a long day of crazy travel yesterday and a nice day in Boston today. Did the crazy carb load thing this morning and felt ill but have recovered as expected. Probably on my feet a little too much today. Trying to stay […]
Nine days until a little race in Boston but first I’ll recap the Capitol 10,000 from March 29. I didn’t decide to run the 10K until two days prior to the race, but when trying to register found it was sold out. Emailed the race director and she said she had some “Local Elite” entries […]
My last three weeks have been 80, 72, 85. In the last 10 days I’ve run 123 miles (sounds like a lot), or about 12 per day (doesn’t sound like too much). It has included a 20 miler, a 24 miler, a 14, two 13s, really tough mile repeats, two hard track workouts and 5 […]
I just had to post these. Hours of greatness. These are real and not from the Simpsons. A sampling: Alcohol Is Dynamite (1958) Bookkeeping and You (1947) Bus Nut (1980) Case Study – LSD (Lockheed, 1969) Cooking Frozen Beef Outbreak of Salmonella Infection (1954) Soapy The Germ Fighter (1951) Story of a Peanut Butter Sandwich […]
Supposed to be a down week. Took Monday off. Tuesday ten x Wilke plus lollipop. Nine easy on Wednesday. Track work Thursday, total fourteen. Friday ten. Twenty too hard on Saturday. Five for fun Sunday. Seventy-two is down?
So what do you think? Can you tell which one is fifteen years younger, 50 minutes faster, 5 times wealthier…? I guess it’ll be a showdown when we both run Boston this year… ;) … taking my tongue out of my cheek now. Ryan Hall photo from here.