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Poster: RightFax
Subject: RE: Brutal Weather for Boston
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codger wrote:

[quote]RightFax wrote:
Also there's this factor. Boston is expensive, for me it was a big deal to travel up there, take off work, pay the hotel, air fare, etc.. and then get my race day shot to hell by something as simple as hot weather. It's the equivalent of planning a beach vacation and it pours rains every day.

I don't even think codger was "relish" that.


Look, the conditions are the same for everybody. Yes, you might be 5 minutes off your PB, but you might finish top 10 in your age group. Wouldn't you get satisfaction from that?
Seems nowadays if you don't run a fast time, even if you perform well in your age group, that the race is a bust.[/quote]

I can agree with that. For me it was no tragedy, but I left Boston feeling like I had wasted a lot of money and a lot of time. Again, just disappointment- like my beach analogy in my earlier post.
In the marathon the weather is such a huge factor that I certainly shop around for cool climates and races run at certain times of the year. I can control my training, I can control my race- that one BIG variable out of my control is the heat, and I try to do everything I can to avoid it on race day.
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