Finally, a happy ending. After only 2 hours of sleep and waiting 3.5 hours in the local high school gymnasium with fellow runners for the marathon to start, I beat my own expectations for the first 20 miles of the race and crossed the finish time with almost 2 minutes to spare for Boston qualification.
Stats from race day
Chip time: 3:39:09
Gender place: 51/445
Division place: 11/119
Pace: 8:22
Overall place: 184/998
Join me in Boston in 2012 for the 116th Annual Boston Marathon!
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Race Tomorrow!
Daily Total: 0; Weekly Total: 13 + marathon; Per Mile Pace: NA; Days Until Marathon: less than 1
As training comes to a close and the race is mere hours away, I'm feeling nervous, nauseous, confident, anxious, and excited all at once. We are again in the midst of a heat wave which is contributing to my nausea.
The race organizers are accused of being disorganized for expecting runners to shuttle bus to the race start at 4:00am, a whole 2.5 hours before start time, and half-marathoners to walk one mile to the start line. Poor planning indeed.
We'll see how it goes tomorrow. I have a fun playlist ready to go on my ipod. I'm trying to load up on nutritious food today while staying very hydrated.
These are not the ideal conditions I was hoping for - trying to limit pessimism and focus on the present.
Finish time coming soon.
As training comes to a close and the race is mere hours away, I'm feeling nervous, nauseous, confident, anxious, and excited all at once. We are again in the midst of a heat wave which is contributing to my nausea.
The race organizers are accused of being disorganized for expecting runners to shuttle bus to the race start at 4:00am, a whole 2.5 hours before start time, and half-marathoners to walk one mile to the start line. Poor planning indeed.
We'll see how it goes tomorrow. I have a fun playlist ready to go on my ipod. I'm trying to load up on nutritious food today while staying very hydrated.
These are not the ideal conditions I was hoping for - trying to limit pessimism and focus on the present.
Finish time coming soon.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Day 79 - Fun Running
Daily Total: 6 miles; Weekly Total: 13 + MARATHON; Per Mile Pace: 8:15; Days Until Marathon: 5
I have yet to find an ideal time of year to train. However, I can easily dismiss the coldest months of winter (which are really quite mild in Santa Barbara) and allergy season from the list. There are always holidays, birthdays, weddings, engagement parties, i.e., reasons to celebrate and digress from the training regimen. This past weekend was Halloween and I wasn't going to skip out on one of my favorite "holidays" in the year 2010 just so that I might qualify for Boston next weekend. I guess these are the hard truths of amateur athletes. Instead of "no pain, no gain", it's "no fun, no gain."
The moral of the story is that conditions will never be ideal. I've been feeling on the edge of a cold/flu for the past week or so, but overcoming it by a hair. I may wake up Saturday, November 2nd at 4:00am feeling ecstatic and energized or like a trainwreck. I at least know that despite any conditional feeling, I'm committed to having fun.
I have yet to find an ideal time of year to train. However, I can easily dismiss the coldest months of winter (which are really quite mild in Santa Barbara) and allergy season from the list. There are always holidays, birthdays, weddings, engagement parties, i.e., reasons to celebrate and digress from the training regimen. This past weekend was Halloween and I wasn't going to skip out on one of my favorite "holidays" in the year 2010 just so that I might qualify for Boston next weekend. I guess these are the hard truths of amateur athletes. Instead of "no pain, no gain", it's "no fun, no gain."
The moral of the story is that conditions will never be ideal. I've been feeling on the edge of a cold/flu for the past week or so, but overcoming it by a hair. I may wake up Saturday, November 2nd at 4:00am feeling ecstatic and energized or like a trainwreck. I at least know that despite any conditional feeling, I'm committed to having fun.
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