Couch2Boston

Totals Swim - 456669 yards Bike - 3602 miles Run - 1570 miles Duration - 602 hours

OK, Here's my race report.  The funny names referenced below are online friends from a Boston Marathon forum. It was a fantastic weekend. I had a fun time at Beerworks hanging out with fellow forumites Saturday evening and then went to the Expo on Sunday. Sunday morning I did the usual Aussie Carb Load. There was a suburban office park with no traffic that made for ~1 mile loop. So, a short warmup run over to the park, then a 5:56 mile and a cooldown back to the hotel. I chugged a ton of Gatorade powder and then it was off to the Expo. One challenge with driving in from the 'burbs was that I didn't know that the toll lanes have all gone automated so at some point there is going to be an additional bill from Hertz and I'm a little scared what the extra convenience charges are going to look like. Before heading into the Expo I went to the Runner's World pop up store and scored some free gloves with the name of 8 of the towns on the fingers. Molly Huddle was gi...

The final tally was 13.19 miles @6:40 pace for a 174 HR and a 1 minute 4 second PR.  Garmin gave me a TE of 5.  I haven't seen that in a long time.  Apparently, it was a hard effort :-) The course was an out and back along the lake that got run twice.  On the 'out' direction it was a complete headwind that was blowing about 20 miles an hour.  It was awful. I warmed up a little bit and then waited for the start.  The jacket I brought was going to be too light, so I wore the 2014 Boston jacket instead since it was heavier.  The first 3ish miles of the 'out' was rough.  I was running too fast for the start, but I wasn't pacing it so much as trying to stay with people to get out of the wind.  At the turn around, I immediately started overheating and before long the jacket was in my hand/arm being carried like a football.  I kept switching hands, which took some juggling because my fogged over sunglasses were in the other hand....