And now for my long-winded ramblings on my race. No short version this time, and its a little heavy on random pictures.

The Day Before:

We stayed downtown at the Westin Copley Place, which is right near the finish line. The room was nice and we had a good view despite the glare in the windows:


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Thanks to everyone for the well-wishes and the congratulations!

Yesterday didn't go 100% according to plan, but I had a pretty decent race, and quite an awesome experience anyhow.  The last 1.5-2 miles were... "uncomfortable" would be the family-friendly term for it.  The non-family-friendly term includes a couple f-bombs, an s-bomb and a "my ( Read more... )

I'm still not freaking out yet, but a switch flipped yesterday when I was putting up my Out of Office message at work.  A palpable sense of dread has finally settled over me.   But that's a good thing.  It shows a healthy respect for the race. Right?

Anyhow, here's my "Did I really pack that?" sanity check picture so I don't have to dig through my ( Read more... )

So I'm surprisingly calm for T Minus 7 days, 19 hours 42 minutes and 50 seconds.

I'm not really freaking out about anything... yet.  But a panic attack might be just around the corner.    Probably it won't happen until I realize I have forgotten something important and its too late to remedy the situation.  Ok.. so maybe I'm a little nervous about ( Read more... )

Well, its taken a while to get here, but I finally got my race plan together.  I talked it over with my coach, and he thinks its good. I've had to rethink a few things going into this race.  I was really sick a couple weeks ago, and I am still on the recovery path.  That kind of put a dent in the training schedule.

But... I'm changing almost ( Read more... )

A friend pointed out that the bib numbers were out for Boston - I am number 1754!  I might actually see some of those elite folks before they go sprinting off into the city.  Or maybe not, but I'll probably be able to see the start line before the race begins this time.

Which means... I need to figure out my game plan here.  I can deal with all the ( Read more... )

I'd really love to PR at Boston.  But I don't think that is going to happen with the way things are going.  But it might! Everything's ok again!  Ah, nevermind.. no it isn't.  Or maybe... maybe that's ok ( Read more... )

Yesterday was an interesting experience.  Through my training group, I had the opportunity to run part of the Austin Marathon as a training run (for a small fee).  We got bibs with numbers and everything, so we were "official" runners on the course, and could partake of the copious amounts of liquid being offered, but we couldn't cross the finish ( Read more... )

Ok.. so this isn't about my training, but it is topical.  As a result of this year's "interesting" registration dilemma, the Boston Marathon is changing their registration process and their qualifying standards.  For those who don't already know (which is probably only a  few of the people who actually read this) here's the scoop:

New Boston ( Read more... )

It could have been worse.  I've had worse, so I know that's true ( Read more... )