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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
