Newport Marathon
Last Saturday a good friend (and training partner) ran the Newport Marathon in Oregon. He was competing in his first marathon in seven years and prior to leaving had the energy of a young boy on the first day of school (apprehension and excitement).
His strategy was gutsy, run the first 20-miles at 6:04 pace, the next 4-miles at 5:55 and then pick it up. Despite 23+ miles of near perfect execution his race didn’t go exactly accordingly to plan but he still finished in a respectable 2:43:56, 7th overall. More importantly, we’ll be training together this winter as we prepare to run a sub 2h40 in Boston next spring. This is going to be fun!
In the short-term, I’ll be taking a short pause over the next week as we leave for vacation. Oh and the photos, me in Ottawa.
Training:
Tuesday: easy 27:10
Wednesday: day off
2 comments:
Michael,
There is a 30 day expirey on the link I gave you to your photos. BUT you can embed them in your blog for as long as you want.
Michael,
Enjoy your vacation, a beautiful time of the year for it.
Looks like you'll be getting some great winter training for Boston.
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