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Boston Registration Season
I got a PM question from a first time Boston qualifier asking me when an acceptance could be expected. I'm guessing there could be more first-time BQ folks out there who are wondering. I know I stressed out about it a bit last year when I was a first-time qualifier, even though everyone I know who had been there told me I…
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Boston Training
This week I started my structured program to train for Boston 2016. I expect it to be a learning experience, so I'm starting a thread here to ramble about my thoughts as I go through the program. The program I'm following has weekly mileages starting from a base of 50 miles. I only got my base up to 46 miles before…
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New to MFP, not new to distance running
I started testing MFP this week because it seems to have a more robust (not necessarily more accurate) link to Garmin than SparkPeople does. I may or may not stick around; if I do, it will likely be for an active running community and because I was able to make the food tracking work with an acceptable level of effort. My…
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New to group
I'm new to myfitnesspal, testing it in parallel with SparkPeople (where I've hung out for over 4 years) because MFP seems to have a more detailed interconnection with Garmin than SP does. (Not necessarily more accurate, but more detailed.) This group seems to be pretty dead, but I thought I'd put an intro out in case…
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New to group, not to distance running
I'm new on myfitnesspal, and new to this group. Don't know for sure how much I'll be hanging around; it depends in part on how active this group is or becomes. I ran my first half in April 2014. Got a stress fracture of the metarsals after that, came back enough to salvage a half out of the entry fee I paid for the…
