Training Run on Boston Course

Paralysis through analysis, carried to the extreme.

Steve,

It's absolutely true. If I thought I was trying to show off I would at least give my name or something. Actually, I wouldn't give my name because it's kind of embarrassing to have run that stupidly.

Could you be specific about the location of the markers? If they were on the side of the road they were covered in snow from the plows. As I mentioned I saw a few right on the middle line. Perhaps because I was running faster than I thought I wasn't looking around the right times. I also didn't know where to look.

I really just want to know what happened. It's as simple as that. I would have never though it would feel that easy to run this fast. I was shocked. I have only run 2 marathons and I've only been running distance since 2006. I ran the 1600/800 off of 40mpw max before that. Never ran anything over 10mi at once. So perhaps I'm finally adapting and faster times are to come. I don't know.

Sorry for the "poorly written" posts. I'm a science geek, I can't write for the life of me. I'm working on it though. Thanks to everyone for posting. There is certainly some interesting insight.

As a progress report. I decided that I felt good enough to keep to my training schedule and not take time off like some posters suggested. I ran my best track workout of the year yesterday. So we'll see.

i still don't quite understand how you can say "I really just want to know what happened"

isn't it obvious...you think you ran on the right course. if indeed you did then you ran much faster than you thought you were because you're pretty clueless about the course in and of itself. you just clearly weren't thinking, as i said before you should have realized around kenmore square that you were pretty damn close to the finish and you should have looked at your watch and realized i should stop, you chose not to.

glad you had a good work work and best of luck to you on race day.

ps. the mile markers ARE in the middle of the road, in most instances right on the double yellow line. the markers on the sides of the street are for water stops and aid stations.

Thanks. I appreciate that kind of response over your previous ones. Sorry, I guess I don't mean what literally "happened". That's obvious because I was there. "What does it likely suggest about my conditioning?" is probably the correct way to put it.

Good point about stopping. Once I was close to the finish I DID notice it was too quick. I still needed to get back home (near the finish) so I just slowed down and finished up easy. I guess it didn't really make up for my earlier mistake though. The point of the run was to get in more than 2:45 total so I was reluctant to stop for this reason also. In retrospect it might have been better to stop though.

BostonTraining wrote:

It's absolutely true...I would at least give my name or something...As a progress report... So we'll see...

OP...What was the result of this experiment? I checked the results for the top 50 Boston residents (said you lived close to the finish) and there are 17 guys under 3. Can you give us a bib number?

(I know you are not 1 of the 2 over 40 or you would get the TRAFFIC reference!)

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