Boston Marathon : Official Thread (Page 5)

Other than my swimspa (50 inches deep) the closest pool is 100 miles away each way.  That really isn't so viable given how things are at work at the moment.  The ankle seems to get a bit better every day though.  Also, I hit my weight goal for the month, 145.  I now have 1 month left to get to an idealish (in my mind) weight of 140.  That will put me close to 10 percent body fat and make me feel so much faster! And it buys me what 4 minutes off my time for a marathon... on paper. 

Fluries today, temps in the 40s and wind... not quite the spring weather I was hoping for.  Oh well my windproof shell should keep me cumfy warm.  Just a 6 and a 12 this weekend and then next weekend is the final 20. 

Question: How do you keep warm for 3 hours until race starts if your car is at the finish line and you can't realy bring a lot of junk with you unless you don't care about ever seeing it again?  Do they have outdoor heaters or tents or something near the starting line?

Keeping warm---- you answered your own question.  Take an old pair of sweats to wear; pitch them at the start.  Go to a thrift shop & buy a coat.  Some people take trash bags, but they don't have much insulation to keep you warm. 

Stop it, you're scaring me! 

I have my "long run" (only) planned for Sunday. 

Last 20 was two weeks ago for me, brother... 

Did decide at the last minute to enter a very hilly (1300' of climbing) half mary yesterday as a tuneup.  Just missed AG medal by less than 30 sec...would have been my first medal ever at HM, actually.  Definitely a training day, though...really hard for me to hold back at the start, but once I got to the handful of steep descents in the last five miles, I didn't have any problems convincing myself to take it easy and stay healthy for Boston.

Elevation profile for the course yesterday:

Very nice, Todd!  You should have no problems at all at Boston!  Those hills you ran look very challenging.  I have one more long one this coming weekend and then a taper.  Fingers crossed, so far, so good.

Steve-nice to see you overcoming the ankle sprain.  

Wave 2 for me, corral 2.  Not sure what the difference will be from each different Wave, other than getting on the buses when they tell you or leaving the village when they let us, but I somehow hope it's better to be at the beginning of Wave 2 vs. end of Wave 1.  Who knows?  I'm just excited to have gotten the packet!  

I was looking at the Boston Profile and it looks like the hills are all in the 50 to 75 elevation gain.  So hopefuly they won't be killers for anyone. 

I got my race packet too, Wave 1 carol 8 (back of wave 1).  Hopefuly everyone is so speedy in wave one that I will have pleanty of room between the end of wave 1 and the start of wave 2.  I will just surf to the finish 8). 

Drn ankle, thought it was pretty much better, felt it a bit at the end of todays run.  I guess doing Sat 10 mile race pace, Sun 20 miles run and Mon 60 mile bike ride left today's 8 mile run with a little built up fatigue.  Oh well nothing bad just could feel it a bit, no function issue, just ... yup that is the sore spot and it is sore again.  Ice tonight.  At least I made it to taper time for me.  I have my hardest bike and run down between now and race day. 

I picked up a mylar blanket for prerace freeze, I noticed they give you one after the race as well, so I can just ditch the one I have near race start.  I see that they have a bag you can throw sweats in closer to race start... but I am literaly flying out Monday night, so I am worried I would have trouble finding my stuff.  So mylar it is. 

Hope everyone stays healthy and safe.... almost time to start getting stoked..... wow really 1 day into taper... ok not time yet but you can start thinking about thinking about it.

those are the kind of temps i would pray for!

~B

YES, those temps would rock!!!  Funny, of course I looked yesterday at the 15 day forecast and it said 64/48 for the 18th.  I like yours better but 64/48 would still be great!  Guess it's never too early to start obsessing about the weather.  Like a friend said today, it'll probably change 10x between now and then, but then what else can we do during taper??? 

Eat and sleep well everyone!!!! 

Hi fellow Boston Qualifiers!  Hope training has been going well.  Here in the California High dessert the wind has been howling, if you watched any of the LPGA tournament this weekend you know what I mean.

Anyway, my finished my last 20 miler in the mountains behind my house (8:26/mi).  That's right on target per my Runner's World Smart Coach.  I've used it for all my half and full marathons with good success.  Currently no injuries (me knocking on wood).  I've done a bunch of riding on my bike trainer this time to see how building my quads may help me in the race.  Plus plan is to go for Arizona Ironman next.

Good luck everybody, btw I'm in Wave 1, coral 9.

Yeah...you have to take forecasts at this point with a giant boulder of salt...

Same site now has it as H56, L41...and rain.

I'm being 100% guided by the knots in my calves on swim & bike volume right now.