This has been a depressingly awful and awfully depressing race weekend. Worst race for me of this year. I’ve been in a lousy mood the last few days and this trip to Denver has only made it worse. I have no patience or grace for others, albeit at least in part because no one during […]
I ran The OC Marathon last year in 3:27:57. I ran The OC Marathon this year in 3:27:25. I also helped a runner qualify for Boston. She was struggling at mile 22 and her race crew sister was trying to convince her she could make it. But she was lost in the quicksand of the […]
As Bostonians might say, “no rest for the wicked (not so very fast) runner.” No time to rest, as a terrible Jamea Bond title might read. For runners are forever chasing the next mile. From a sunny day to a cold front bringing dark clouds and a chilling, rolling spittle of rain, the London Marathon […]
Because of a winning lottery entry, I have a bib for the London Marathon the weekend after Boston. And thus, from Boston to London I flew on Tuesday. It was a rough red eye flight: I left at 5 PM Eastern and arrived in GMT at 9:30 AM, with little sleep in-between. But as I […]
Per usual, a few shots from the race day, watermarked by the pro photographers at marathonfoto…
Soggy and tiring… but a massive boost to see the family at the last turn onto Boylston. To the buses, to the buses… Almost an hour’s ride from Boston Commonn to Athlete’s Village at Hopkinton… The race is on… and the final countdown to 500 marathons… And now to shower and […]
I’m nervous and anxious and feel like I’ve mucked it all up. Scheduling, locations, planning — it’s a mess. I’m trying to tell myself that the key is that I’ve got people here to cheer me on and instead of stressing about all that’s going wrong (the temperature has dropped precipitously… and precipitation is in […]
While the days, hours, minutes tick away to the 500th marathon, I find myself dealing with any number of unforced errors. Just amateurish mistakes that I should have known better to make. From an early morning flight that requires an even earlier wakeup (why do I never remember such things when I book tickets for […]
The Math Of It AllApril 24, 2004 – April 17, 2023 500 marathons6931 Days18 years, 11 Months, 24 days13,100 miles21,082.406 kilometers