If you don’t follow politics at all, you may not know who Tim Pawlenty is. He is a former governor of the state of Minnesota who decided to run for President. He was part of the large field of Republican candidates who were vying for their party’s nomination. Last summer, after finishing a distant 3rd [...]
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I am not Tim Pawlenty
Posted in boston marathon, motivation, training, tagged finish line, iowa straw poll, lactate threshold, marathon pace, marathon training, quitting, running, Sugarloaf Marathon, Tim Pawlenty on January 18, 2012 | 7 Comments »
Freedom
Posted in boston marathon, tagged "33", boston marathon, BQ, Freedom on September 27, 2011 | 16 Comments »
33. No, not the mysterious number that appears on bottles of Rolling Rock beer; I’m talking seconds. Yes, 33 seconds. Yesterday I was informed by the BAA that my BQ time of 3:19:19 was 33 seconds short (long?) of what became the actual Boston Marathon cut off. Maybe they should have changed 3:20:59 from BQ [...]
Wait and See
Posted in boston marathon, tagged Boston 2012, boston marathon, registration on September 19, 2011 | 11 Comments »
This morning at 10AM I did what as many as 10,000 other marathoners did or will do this week. Along with all of the other Boston Qualifiers that qualified with less than a 5 minute cushion, I submitted my registration application to the B.A.A. for the 2012 Boston Marathon. With a cushion of a mere [...]
A Break
Posted in boston marathon, other, training, tagged boston marathon 2012, Boston Qualifier, BQ, burnout, mainerunnah, running, training on August 19, 2011 | 24 Comments »
I have a friend. I have only met him in the real world once. He was a large part of why I was able to qualify for Boston back in October of last year – we carried each other for 15 miles. On that day he missed qualifying for Boston by seconds. As joyful as [...]
Last Chance
Posted in boston marathon, racing, tagged boston marathon, Boston Qualifier, Last chance for Boston, Last Qualifier for Boston 2012, marathon, running on August 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A few years ago I heard of a race called Last Chance for Boston. It takes place in Dublin, Ohio and used to be billed as a marathoner’s last chance to qualify for Boston. It seemed like a miserable endeavor to me – 26 laps around a 1 mile loop of an office park, just [...]
Discipline
Posted in boston marathon, training, tagged boston marathon, Discipline, running, training on May 5, 2011 | 17 Comments »
As I continue to peel back the layers of what may have happened to me at Boston, something keeps nagging me. Looking back at my splits, I realize that early on I wasn’t on pace for a 3:15 marathon, or even a 3:10. Some of my splits, had I been able to maintain them would [...]
The Dark Side
Posted in boston marathon, motivation, training on May 2, 2011 | 9 Comments »
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” -Yoda “You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger. Only your hatred can destroy me.” “If you only knew the power of the Dark Side.” -Darth Vader Darth Vader, once the biggest bad-ass in [...]
Boston 2011 – Lemonade
Posted in boston marathon, race recap, Uncategorized, tagged Boston Marathon 2011, race recap, running on April 24, 2011 | 38 Comments »
As I bolted out of the porta-potty, I thought, this is it! this is the moment! THIS is where all of the training kicks in!!! I looked up at the first of the Newton Hills almost with a smile. You. Are. Mine. I thought. I had been running along at a decent clip, averaging in [...]
Disappointment
Posted in boston marathon, tagged boston marathon, disappointment on April 22, 2011 | 12 Comments »
So as I sit here struggling to write my race recap of this year’s Boston Marathon, there is one word that keeps popping into my head. That word is disappointment. Now, before any of you start to feel sorry for me, let me clarify one thing – Disappointment is NOT a dirty word. Disappointment does [...]
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