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Thanks Rickshaw, and of course Congratulations to yourself!

Are you putting together a more offical race report for us to enjoy?

Also, I want to discuss how you're recovering from this race (whe ...

I think your chills in this case were very likely because of your recent ailments, but in the future, especially in longer races, don't freak out if you get the what i call the 'shivers'. After almos ...

It truly is amazing how the entire community supports and gets excited about the race. It's an amazing atmosphere. I don't know if you called or not, but I actually left my phone charger back home s ...

One thing I’ve come to realize about the Boston Marathon is that while so many runners share in their desire to make it to that common destination, they all get there way there in very different way ...

i've always heard that, but the times i've tried it, i dont' feel as poppy on race day (for shorter races usually) but this is a noon start so i bet a lot of the typical 'stay off your feet' stuff app ...

I had the same experince yesterday with my dress rehearsal. i did in the fall too. i just feel sluggish on that run for some reason. it could be that i'm off my typical carb-heavy diet most of the ...

3:15 was a number I had in mind, but i have to admit, it's pretty random. i suspect i'll wait even longer to finally decide and agree, i don't care about a minute here or there on my time (that nonse ...

The alerts system is there, but it has it's limitations. Each runner can only enter 3 devices (cell, pager or email). I know in Chicago, anyone can log on and get unlimited alerts for unlimited runn ...

Thanks,

I feel ready, but with some hesitation. You can empathize, to an even greater degree, but this morning I woke up feeling a bit under the weather. I have been pounding the 'airborn' and th ...

Yeah, I did the Shuffle. It's quite a spectacle. 25000 Runners for an 8K. Depending on who you ask, there's differing oppinions on why the Shuffle is in April. Most people say it's becasuse there ...

this stuff is great. i like the detail of the elevation map you found, but i don't know why those maps can't be more representative of the actual slope of the hills. i know it's an abstraction and i ...

i just looked at the website... did he actually find 50 'official' marathons that fall on all of those days? I didn't think that was possible... is there that many weekday marathons?... or is he just ...

on a related topic, i heard his paperback of that book is out now and has an epilogue containing details on his diet and nutrition regimen. has anyone seen it yet?

yeah, i think this isn't even going to be in the top 5 hardest things he's done. he does marathons for breakfast. i suspect once he gets in a groove and adapts his already ridiculous daily routine t ...

I'll be heading there the Friday before the race (April 14th) and will be leaving the following Tuesday evening, the day after the race. I haven't gotten around to planning the day by day schedule, b ...

Bib #4594 for me, thanks for the link!... I got the email explaining the wave start too... I can't wait to get my stuff in the mail. Have you gotten yours yet?

I did 21 as well, and had a pretty s ...

i have followed the group's plan when we meet, but i have been following pfitz loosely the whole time on other workouts. But I have gravitated more closely to it for weeks 7 to 0. I am shaving off a ...

yep, that's pretty much my Exact take on the whole thing. I also plan to spend a little more time at an expo for once. Normally I rush through it so as not to spend the proverbial 'too much time on ...

I keep hearing this dilema is somewhat unavoidable and the number one negative about the Boston Marathon. I'm stayig with a friend downtown and am just planning to use the early shuttle bus i guess. ...

Oldman,

Was this your first bout with burnout in your running life? Did you see it coming? New to running, I haven't had to deal with this yet and am a little scared of it. Rickshaw I think you h ...

i think you showed pretty good discipline all things considered. i know i can never keep myself honest when i use a race for a pace or tempo workout. there was no 1/2's around here for me to do that ...

Thanks guys... admittedly it’s an odd sensation, being in a national magazine like that. I haven’t quite figured out where it ranks as an accomplishment. I still contend the weight-loss itself i ...

The first one i did was Higdon Novice, then I did Higdon Advanced. Right now, getting ready for Boston, I started doing one from that my running group handed out, simply because I didn't want to trai ...

I can't find it on their website yet... I think it lags behind the printed version a bit (although I don't think they put every article from the magazine on line).

Shameless plug time...

My 15 minutes have arrived I guess. Forgive the self promotion, but check me out in the table of contents (p.11) and the article (p.84-86) of the April 2006 Runner's World ( ...

This is the exact plan I followed last summer/fall and this method of taper was the NUMBER ONE thing I liked about this plan versus more traditional plans. In my previous traning plans that followed ...

I wear Timex Ironman's Performance Monitor that works with a GPS reciever for speed and Distance as well as a Heart Rate monitor. I, personally, think it's the best all around thing out there, price ...

how did you run that many miles..!? i felt like 1862 was a ton, though i guess i though the same about 1000 last year...

yeah, i love reading about this trail running scene too via rustyboy's ac ...

yeah, i don't know which is worse; the cost of them or the space they take up. i recently moved and found myself throwing away a lot of stuff, but i just couldn't bring myself to toss out, for exampl ...

Wooh, what a year 2005 was. I thought I'd have a tough year improving on my 2004 which was my first year of serious running, but i actually blew it out of the water:

2005 Highlights:

-32nd over ...

So, a coworker of mine asked me to participate with him and some others in a team to do one of the local high-rise stair climbs. It's an 80 floor climb, and more of a sprint than anything. I guess i ...

"value of the return on my investment"

i think this is very often the way i look at training and racing. in training i often push trough pain, telling myself 'if you can't finish this workout, how ...

that's awesome, i'd love my company to put something like that together.... we've got some runners, but probably not enough to make it worth it... but what is it about 5K? I'm sure you're in better s ...

For a short time I was using 4 on-line logs to try them out. Last year I sarted using Training Peaks (then Training Bible) and continued with that into this year, when I tried Nike Running's, Cool R ...

so does anyone else find themselves wanting to reach 'milestones' on thier training logs, for the week, month, year...? I remeber last year that I really wanted to get to 1000 miles and did, on Decem ...

Mfox, i had always heard that those chips only work if they're on your shoe, close to the mats, so i might have made the same mistake someday. i also heard that the reason elite runners wear two is t ...

This honestly makes me sick, for so many reasons

"This is an Olympic sport and people lose sight of that. It's not a touchy-feely, we're all going to feel good, Kumbaya," he said.
"You play by the ...

Organizers of the Marine Corps Marathon are considering banning a Toronto coaching group next year, after discovering that the head coach had helped some of her slower runners take a [url=http://www.t ...

thanks guys, that clears things up a lot. i wanted to make sure i shouldn't feel guilty for getting the 'wrong' medal or something. that is great information and it makes a lot of sense. i think it ...

So I got my medal in the mail yesterday for my 3rd Place Division finish. But when I turned over the medal it said "1st Place Male 25-29". My only guess as to why this happened is that the 1 and 2 r ...

I've done 1 small marathon and 3 giant ones (NYC and 2 Chicago). I for one like the million spectators more than the 100 that watched the small race. In all three of my big ones, I had eperiences wh ...

I was there, watching and can tell you for a fact that the weather was awful for a marathon. i got to my viewing spot in brooklyn between miles 6 and 7 at 9:30 and it was borderline hot, but the fog ...

Mfox,

Good luck on Sunday at the New York Marathon. GO GET BOSTON! I'll be there, at least in Brooklyn cheering you and every other runner on. Have a great race and have fun! I can't wait to ch ...

Thanks guys,

Rickshaw, I think next will be something that's bothered me since that high school xc team. I want to break 20 in a 5K. I haven't really tried yet, and I've got to think I can, but i ...

So, my girlfriend and I decided to do a race, post marathon and post recovery for fun to get back into the running scene. We wanted to do a race that would be nice and relaxed and that we could enjoy ...

i'm interested to see how this website develops... thanks for the link. It already answered a question I had (if i read it right). I qualified in October, so needless to say it is good for this comi ...

I'm not running, but I'll be there to watch, primarily in Brooklyn. I was pretty sure I'd feel jealous I wasn't running when runners started going past, but after hearing your account of the start, I ...

it seems like i get a different amount of sleep every night. i aim for at least seven, sometimes get 5-6, sometimes 8-9. one thing that i find helps me is sticking to a good waking schedule. in oth ...

Great report! AND Amazing finishing place. 13th has got to feel great, even if there's only 15 runners, that's so cool! I am shocked you could run those fast miles at the end. I don't care if you ...

Make that TWO!!!!! I'll see you there rickshaw! 1 more to go mfox, after reading your nhmarathon report, i'm confident you'll make your goal.

This is to notify you that your entry into the 110th ...

congratulations....

i'm waiting for that same email. i excitedley applied last week. how long did they take to 'review' your results and send the follow up confirmation? didn't you use your resu ...

yes, let's definitely hook up in some fashion!

ok cool, some guys at the office were jokingly telling me to stop bragging right around when i read that, so i didn't know if i was coming off like i ...

mfox,

i did quite a number of things. sufficed to say i was extremely unhealthy before so a lot of little things made a huge difference. running was central, needless to say. i ran 4-5 times a w ...

Thanks guys!

yeah, mfox, it's crazy what a couple pounds difference feels like out there. i will be out there cheering you on in november, you'll have to put "mfox" on your shirt or something thou ...

I run at night in the winter and it's dark. i avoid car traffic as much as possible and am extra cautios about following street signals, etc. when i am in traffic. i run mostly in a sporatically lit ...

Glad to hear you're back in the swing of things. I liked that article, also germane the point about months off and having to spend a lot of time getting back to where you were in the first place. It ...

Thanks guys! I am indeed on cloud nine right now. I still can't believe I did it.

Yes Ricksaw I am going to run this April and Mfox I will be in New York next month (WATCHING!).

Well, I think ...

... but I had to get on and let the Runworks crowd know I put it all together yesterday in Chicago and came away with a BQ. 3:09:44 and I'm ready for a break. It's been a crazy year since my debut m ...

yeah, i'm waaaaay to anal to do that, not to mention i rarely run the same time on the way out as the way in, so that would drive me crazy too...

wow, just by the hair on your chinny chin chin, huh. that's great. i'm jealous...

i think they'll take quite a number of different proofs of results, i wouldn't sweat it too much...

changing it makes it no longer certified.

needless to say, this was the case.

thanks! it was quite the experience indeed. i'm just getting back into the swing of things now. i took a solid 7 days off and took it easy last week, less than 30 miles. my leggs are starting to ...

So I completed the Lakeshore "Marathon" this Monday. If you haven't heard yet, the unthinkable occured and race "organizers" mismeasured the course and the course was 27.2 miles long:

http://www.c ...

so, i had a physical last week and they just called me with the cholesterol results. the numbers mean absolutely nothing to me, even after reading this thread (in fact i'm more confused). they gave ...

So right now i have pesky cold, not a big deal, but i've noticed recently that my weight is inexplicably down 4-5 pounds. I haven't done anything other than i've done with my diet/training recenltly ...

i would like to see a graph or something that shows at what point in a given sprint that top speed is reached, how long it took to get there, how long it is maintained, etc.

FANTASTIC job Pretender. Congratulations. And I must say, a very good race report. I read it three times. What a poignant moment that must have been before the race. With the emotion of the momen ...

Well, it's all relative. Last year at this time I was getting ready for my first 20 mile WEEK! So for most of my running thus far I've been on that nice steep part of the diminishing return curve. ...

so my ponderous april trudged forward another step this morning with the completion of my third race of the month. coming off pr's at 8k to start the month and a 1/2 mary the following week, i stumbl ...

while that sounds really hard, it sounds really really cool. i think that's a great way to get back into running and racing, etc. after a layoff... something different like that... perhaps a bit long ...

OUCH...Jesus Rustyboy. Did you break a mirror recently or is your sick cat black with a propensity to walk across your path on a regualar basis? Silver lining....let's see...this is a tough one..... ...

The bottom line is, if you are consuming just water when during long runs/races you're an idiot.

this pretty well sums it up as far as i'm concerned.

This seems to be all the rage right now. I read article after article about this and every time the advice is over reactionary basically telling everyone to drink less or they'll die from hyponatremi ...

Top Kenyan distance runner Bernard Lagat has become a United States citizen, and [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/4440823.stm]may soon be competing for the US. Kenyan officials were repo ...

thanks mfox,

yeah, i've started a lot of the stuff i did on physical therapy already and think it's helping a little bit. i'm going to start it up again on tuesday officially. i feel loose right ...

thanks rickshaw

i think that makes a lot of sense and that's pretty much my plan, basically to get as good a run as possible in, day off, good run, day off, etc.

i did physical therapy for it la ...

Well, this race couldn't have been more poorly timed with my banged up and worn down body, but I shut a 9m run down at 6 on thursday with my hamstring still feeling like mush and hints of my IT band ...

Athletes in the worlds of tennis and golf can capture a Grand Slam by winning all their sport's major competitions, so why not marathoning? [url=http://sport.scotsman.com/athletics.cfm?id=325362005]Ra ...

Thanks guys,

Yeah, it's a huge race... largest 8k in the world, they boast. I did get a perferred start this year, but i still had to do a decent amount of bobbing and weaving, especially at the ...

Despite suffering from some Over-Training Syndrome the last couple of weeks and a bad muscle pull in my hamstring I ran a confidence building race this morning.

The plan was to start out slow to wa ...

it was good, but letterman didn't seem to know what to say... he treated him more like a stupid human trick than an athlete.

this sunday's 60 minutes has a feature on the badwater race... sounds go ...

NOBODY looks good in those gowns. Yech.

Speak for yourself, I look damn sexy in one of those babies!

man, until this conversation, i was always happy i never had to deal with black toe nails, much less strokes and peeing blood....

another thing to think about.... imagine how much scarier this scar ...

I just heard Dean Karnazes is going to be on Late Night this evening promoting his new book "Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner." He's that rediculous guy that wants to run 300 mil ...

yikes!

glad to hear you're okay, but definitely take it easy. do you wear a heart rate monitor?

not to rub salt in the wounds, but i can account for the opposite perspective on the genetics fac ...

Distance runner Dathan Ritzenhein appears ready to do what no American runner in 25 years has done, [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/sports/othersports/15runner.html?oref=login&oref=login]co ...

Jen Rhines claimed her second [url=http://www.usatf.org/news/view.aspx?DUID=USATF_2005_03_13_10_50_49]USA 15 km Championship title in Indianapolis on Saturday, while Ryan Shay won his first. Rhines ra ...

So when you're in a race, do you sprint the last few hundred yards to the finish...whether it's a 5K or a Marathon?

I find that I run the last mile to 1/2 mile or so harder, but only by a few secon ...

i can vouch for that. the only time i've gotten sick in the last two years was after NY last fall and i wasn't feeling sick leading up to the race like you. go get some drugs and i hope you feel bet ...

i watched this race on the web telecast (thanks runworks) and if they made it unfair for the women, it wasn't by as much as she's making it out to be. the men didn't catch her till the last mile afte ...

the track i use downtown is closed in the winter so i just do my intervals on the lakefront path where i do the rest of my runs, which is conveinently marked every 1/2 mile. it actually works out qui ...

i see. that's a good point. i never thought of it that way. i'm just so intimidated by speed work still. now that i look at it that way i guess i only did 2.5 miles of hard running with 4-5 of jog ...

so i woke up this morning with an odd sensation after an interval workout last night..... no pain???

I had some decent mileage on the weekend, 7 and 14 on fri/sat and was pretty gassed at the end ...

and now I'm pretty sick of even thinking about running.

In my opinion this is the only bad thing that came out of the day. It's simply not fair for a runner to work so hard and be left with anythi ...

mfox,

curious about all the 'new' gatorade products at the expo for chicago last year, i grabbed one of each, but didn't try any of them till after that marathon. i tried the protien shake after f ...

Have a great race Rickshaw! Hope you feel fresh on race day. Can't wait to hear the race report!

Just curious... have you been tracking your heart rate while you've been ill?

sorry to hear about that, but glad the pet's okay. on the bright side like you said you can do some local races still, perhaps refocus and parlay this training into a fall marathon...

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/gen/wire?messageId=29185501

The ban on star Kenyan distance runner Susan Chepkemei was lifted Wednesday, three days after she failed to report on time to the nation ...

500? yeah, i'd say it was time for a switch. there's nothing like those first few runs in a fresh pair...

That's a great way of looking at it. Needless to say a Paul Tergat responds differently to things than a John Bingham.

I actually experienced pretty darn close to that exact scenario. A freind o ...