On the road to BOSTON!

AM: Ran over to the DC 2.65 miles and met up with the running club. Easy running today. Ran with Kendra for the loop 5.20 mile. Then ran with Steve back to home 2.65 miles.

This is the beginning of Boston taper. Goal to cut back to 50 miles this week-

Ran out on the path to River Road then over to the other side of the river, went all the way down to the hill, pushed it up then turned into Bloomington Hills to the park and then back to the path to River Road to home--8:10 pace

Ran out to SunRiver by way of Sugar Leo, then looped around the project then back on the frontage road to Man o War to home- Just a steady, no stopping, controlled pace. Lots of little hills, good workout. I need to do this while picking the pace up a bit more. Overall I am very satisfied with the effort and result. 8:09 pace

12 days to Boston

Same as yesterday 30 seconds faster per mile

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11.50 miles this morning in the windy thanksgiving point area. 40 mph headwinds running back for 6.50 miles...kept the pace at 8:12

Treadmill mileage at the hotel Saturday night along with some leg presses.

Ran on the path and looped over to Bloomington Hills then to Piloe to Man o War to home. Very windy so it was a solid workout- 7:32 pace for the run-

Same run as yesterday- not as windy but it was blowing- I had great energy this morning.I started out with 8:09 warm up mile then kept the pace in the low 7's all the way. Ended up with 7:12 average pace for the run!

Body is as ready as it can be for the big day- 6 days away....This was the last run with intensity and I will now hit 6 or so tomorrow of easy slow miles then a couple 2-3 mile runs in Boston this weekend-

Last training run completed! Now all is left is staying healthy and getting to Boston tomorrow! 5.40 miles at 7:03 average pace That includes my warmup mile that was 8:09 pace So the last 4.40 miles was at 6:46 average pace!....the legs are ready to conquer the Boston Marathon on April 15th-
If you want to follow my progress text RUNNER to 345678 and use my bib number 13363 and you will get a few updates as I am running....

Did some treadmill running because it is cold.....2.50 miles then 1.50 out in the 40 degree windy downtown Boston area. Then back to the treadmill for another mile.

Little run in Boston looking for where we are going to eat dinner tonight in little Italy, antico forno. It was 34 degrees out this morning after raining last night and yesterday.

What a day!

With the tragic event at the finish line I don't want to say much today about the race. I don't want to come across shallow and boast about my accomplishment and PR. Later I will include my story......... Prayers go out to those killed and injured and their families!

Tuesday morning:

Still trying to process this whole bombing at the marathon.......

I wanted to put my splits up so I don't forget:

8:15, couldn't get past the mob of people for the first 3 miles/ 7:52/ 7:43/ running a bit behind my plan because it was so congested. 7:30/ finally at pace/ 7:47/ 7:30/ 7:27/ 7:41/ 7:36/ 7:38/ 7:40/ 7:44/ 8:15- stopped to use porta John- lost about 45 seconds/ 7:41/ 7:58/ 7:49/ 8:17/ 8:05/ 7:58/ 8:01/ 8:14/ the newton hills I was able to run pretty strong. I would be going along and say, this ain't so bad and would take off passing people. / coming off the hills I was feeling pretty good but I was not running as fast as I thought I was. I was trying to pump up the crowd at Boston college, spent too much energy doing that but I felt great. / 7:33/ 8:03/ 8:10/ I got mad at this point and started pushing harder, passing runners and weaving through the masses. I was lifting the legs high and pumping hard! I loved this part of the race and had a hard time keeping the tears from flowing....I couldn't believe that I was feeling so good, although I was tired. 7:49/ 7:50/ 6:56.

My number was 13363 for seeding and i ended up 7537 finisher, very happy about this effort to move up so far.

I will write more later after I take sometime to gather my thoughts on this tragic event.

The outpouring of love and concern was truly amazing and made me feel so very blessed to be a part of this running community and to have such great friends and family!

I WILL BE BACK- THESE IDIOTS WILL NOT WIN

Post Marathon run- 3 miles @ 7:57 average pace- This also marks the beginning of Boston 2014 training!!!

Ran with the club this morning around the path at Dixie Center  8:02 pace

Ran over to DC then over Tonaquint. 6 miles @ 8:10 pace. Right hammy still a bit sore but healing.

Completed 78.60 miles (triple marathon distance) at the Relay for Life. Hamstring gave out after 2 laps in the heat and just would cooperate. First 6 hours were not very productive. Then as the cooler evening came around I could finally run a bit and then had a good stretch of running to get the mileage up. The last 6 hours I was worthless again and just walks most of the time.......It's all good!