Boston Marathon 2016 Race Report

Flew out of San Antonio, Texas 4/23/16 missed my flight at 7:00 am then connected later at 10:00 a.m. and was able to get to Boston at 6:00 pm instead of my scheduled time of 3:30 p.m.

4/16/16

7:00 PM  went for a run to South Boston then bought a pizza and took it to the Hotel.

10:00 PM crashed out

4/17/16

9:00 am Picked up my BIB and left back to the hotel

11:30 am headed out to Fenway

4:00 pm headed to meet Jack Murray so we can eat dinner at Yucca

8:30 pm headed back to hotel to crash out and get ready for race day.


4/18/16
3:30 am borrowed GPS watch from Jack
4:00 am woke up and drank some Starbucks coffee at the hotel complimentary drinks are always good.

5:00 a.m. took a taxi to MIT

6:30 am departed to Hopkinton

8:40 am headed to corrals

10:00 am Showtime for 6-8 miles

Miles 8-21 stopped about 8-10 times, took off shoes twice, 1 to take off socks 2 to apply vaseline

21-26 enjoyed the run and absorb the Boston crowd!

2:30 pm headed to the hotel via TRAIN

3:00 PM took a shower and proceeded to the airport

4:30 PM boarded plane and forgot what had just happened.

Another 3:10 marathon without training HURTS! It is what it is! I'll get back into the swing of things to redeem myself for my masters years!

Pictures will come soon!

Sorry gotta put my race reports that's the only way I'll remember how my marathon went!

Until the next marathon! Love the #thon

Houston Marathon Race Report

Decided to run the Houston Marathon back in June 2015.


Fast forward to January 2016 when I accidentally replied to Facebook post about pacing someone in the Houston Marathon Facebook page. I put on the post sub 2:45 or bust! Well little did I know that a girl from Chicago name Chirine Njeim from Lebanon needed a sub 2:45 to qualify for the Rio Olympics for her country.

Chirine Njeim

Fast forward to race day! Met with Chirine and her husband we talked about tactics and what not.
For the Houston Marathon I upped my mileage from 30 mpw to 65 mpw just to get fit for the race.

Took Chirine through 9 miles but in mile 10 I had to go pee and that stopped made me fall behind by 30 seconds and that's how I stayed for the next 17 miles viewing all her moves from the back.

I ended running a 2:44:49 while Chirine ended up qualifying with a 2:44:14

 Garmin Connect Splits Houston