Last week 74 miles and felt great. This week starting the taper and looking forward to the race. Since I've never done Boston before, really anxious. Especially since I'm starting at 11:31... oh well.
Good luck to all! Hope for good weather!
Last week 74 miles and felt great. This week starting the taper and looking forward to the race. Since I've never done Boston before, really anxious. Especially since I'm starting at 11:31... oh well.
Good luck to all! Hope for good weather!
I agree with this guy, banditing is bullshit. If you are in fact a 1:09 guy, you could easily qualify and should know better than to pull a dick move like that.
smalla- what was your qualifying time?
Rancho,
I also am following Pfitz's plan. 18 weeks, but at 52-58 miles most weeks. I only run five days a week in order to stay healthy. Even then I missed two separate weeks of training due to a calf and then an ankle tendonitis issue recently. About 90-95% now.
The only change I like is adding in a patented Daniels' 20min LT followed by an hour of general running and then finish with another 20min LT run. That is a great confidence booster and really lets me know when I'm in pretty good shape. I didn't get to do much MP running as it fell in the time my calf was recovering. However, I have several 18-21mi efforts which should get me through. Goal is sub 2:40, but this being my first Boston...finishing is priority one. Ran 2:38 in my one and only marathon on a medium level difficulty course in Des Moines back in fall of 03.
I have found out that I don't need to train so long in the winter. The weather here in Iowa in Jan-Feb with ice, snow, cold increases the risk of injury so I think if I train for another spring marathon I will follow one of the 12 week plans. Use your experience to your advantage and good luck.
Bleachrbum,
just curious, do you run also the 6-7 miles continuosly at LT that Pfiz has in the plan, or you replace them with the Daniels style workout ? I find the 6-7 miles at LT very very challenging mentally, and they kind of "harden" me.
The only time I followed Daniels marathon plans, I did like the idea of LT after a middle run, in order to get your body used to run fast when tired, but somehow the end result was a disappointing marathon (probably I was just too unexperienced, running too fast my easy days, and never really recovering..)
Any more interest in setting up an "official" postrace party for the Boston letsrunners? I know we had a couple names of places thrown out - Purple Shamrock & Dick's Last Resort - but anyone else have any ideas? I'd love to hang out with some of you guys and throw back some beers while jabbering about the race!
Why doesn't anybody interested email me. Maybe we can coordinate things that way.
smalla123 wrote:
Last week 74 miles and felt great. This week starting the taper and looking forward to the race. Since I've never done Boston before, really anxious. Especially since I'm starting at 11:31... oh well.
Good luck to all! Hope for good weather!
I've been checking weather.com from time to time. At the end of last week, Monday's temp was supposed to have a high of 53 degrees with rain. But every day I check the forecast, the temp is higher. It's now up to 63 with no rain and is the hottest day of the week...every other day is below 60. It's looking like last year. How can this be?
I've been following the weather sites as well, and it is getting warmer and warmer in the forecasts. Local Boston TV-7 website is now forecasting 74 degrees for Monday. Ugh!
Please don't run as a bandit. Qualify you can do it and you will feel a lot better about yourself when you do. Anybody can just in, but it means SQUAT! Watch the race and cheer people on if you would like to be part of the energy and festivites. You wil be so filled with "real' energy that you will WANT to make the commitment to qualify and be legit for next year!
From one who qualified and had to sit it out and then had re-qualify. It was well worth it.
Oops! I think this message was suppose to be for DMoney. Sorry.
Weather.com still says high of 63, low of 46...hopefully it will stop there, that would be tolerable
bump...you guys email me if you wanna set something up for Monday night! Also email me if you got any recommendations for bars downtown near the finish area.
I wish everyone good luck in the race. I will be very sad on Monday knowing that I should be there. Kudos to wstuart for keeping this thread going.
I found a bunch of places around the Boston Common/Boylston Street area on:
that citysearch website is awesome. I used that to find some places when I went to Chicago last fall.
Love to meet up after the race. Wish the fabled Elliot Lounge were still in operation. I may got to press conference with my KIMBIA agent friends but will gladly go, even unshowered, to a watering hole. Supposed to be a now famous ???& Pub across from the old Elliot. Would be right before the Hereford street turn, I believe.
Annoyingly, never having had knee problems before, I have started to feel some crepitus and patella-tendonitis in my knee. what the heck?! Downhills are now worrying me when I usually love 'em. Anyone ever worn one of those cheezey cho-pat thingamagigs? Do they work?
bump
This is slightly off topic, but has anyone attended the pasta dinner before the race? It's included in your race price, but wanted to get some sense of what is offered adn how crowded. Thanks.
The Pasta dinner is actually very good and you get more than enough. It is Buffet style once you get in and you can get seconds, thirds if needed. Boston Marathon really goes out of there way to make this nice and it is. Covered tent so dress warm if needed.
Also, just like everyting else on Marathon weekend the lines are long to get in. Last year I got their 20 minutes before it opened and had a very short wait to get in.
Good luck and see you this weekend:)--there is nothing like the run from Hopkinton to Kenmore Square!
cool, thanks for the info on the pasta dinner, I was wondering that same thing myself.
van - we are still trying to work something out for Monday night. The problem is, none of us are from Boston so we don't know any of the good places downtown. Will probably post a new thread when we get the information all settled.