Monday, February 05, 2007
70 Days
That's how long until I will be "toeing the line" in Hopkinton MA, the place where the Boston marathon starts.
My weekend training didn't go exactly to plan. We had a fairly significant snowfall late Friday/early Saturday. That meant that as I headed out for my run the streets were still a mess and the sidewalks unplowed (for the most part). Plus, it was very windy. I had planned to do two loops of a 9 mile route but by part way through the first I knew that there was no way I was going to be able to do both. So, I stopped after the first loop but resolved to get back out again on Sunday for another long-ish run.
On Sunday the roads and sidewalks were in somewhat better shape. Weather was still tough - it was VERY windy and any open areas had lots of drifting/blowing snow. Nevertheless, I managed to do an 11 mile route.
Although I wasn't happy with cutting the Saturday run short, I'm proud of myself for getting back out there and doing some more mileage on Sunday. Both days my pace was slow (11:00) but that is attributable to the conditions and to my coach's instructions to slow down my long runs.
10 weeks to go ...
My weekend training didn't go exactly to plan. We had a fairly significant snowfall late Friday/early Saturday. That meant that as I headed out for my run the streets were still a mess and the sidewalks unplowed (for the most part). Plus, it was very windy. I had planned to do two loops of a 9 mile route but by part way through the first I knew that there was no way I was going to be able to do both. So, I stopped after the first loop but resolved to get back out again on Sunday for another long-ish run.
On Sunday the roads and sidewalks were in somewhat better shape. Weather was still tough - it was VERY windy and any open areas had lots of drifting/blowing snow. Nevertheless, I managed to do an 11 mile route.
Although I wasn't happy with cutting the Saturday run short, I'm proud of myself for getting back out there and doing some more mileage on Sunday. Both days my pace was slow (11:00) but that is attributable to the conditions and to my coach's instructions to slow down my long runs.
10 weeks to go ...
# posted by FreddyBeachPete @ 9:48 AM 
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