Boston Training

MobyCarp

The hay is in the barn now. I ran 915.63 miles in the 16 week structured program. Today I got in my car and drove toward Boston. Tomorrow I should get 2 or 3 miles on the end of the course, as recommended by the program.

Odd end of taper, pre-race thoughts:

I put more miles on my running shoes in training that I'll put on my car getting to and from Boston.

I'm not worried about the race. I'm worried about the schedule, managing a 4 hour wait from getting on the bus till starting to run.

I've been keyed up an haven't slept well the past few days. I hope I can sleep well tonight, because tomorrow night will necessarily be short.

At the start of training, and particularly when I registered and made my first hotel reservation, I totally under-appreciated how much of an event Boston is outside of the race proper. I kind of feel like I need to run Boston again in 2017 to get the logistics right and plan for the non-race social events.

dewd2

Good luck. I'll be watching some of the race on my computer. Be sure to wave to us as you cross the finish.

MNLittleFinn

Good luck today!

MobyCarp

Left a long post in the April Running Challenge thread describing the experience; don't want to reproduce it here.