Upon migrating my blog I realized I never updated this post with more details.
Turns out that my first marathon was an interesting one. I didn't know much about the explosions until well after finishing. I got a call while I was running from a friend who told me about "an explosion" at the finish line. I decided to slow down and ask a couple of officers standing by the side of the road. They didn't tell me much other than "there was an incident" and there was an alternate finish line. So I kept on running. As I got closer to the end of the marathon I ran into a wall of people milling around which I really could not run through. I took a detour, ran up a few streets and got my 26.2 miles in and called it a day. Turns out, this was only the beginning of a new leg of the event. The T was shut down due to the explosions and I had no ride home, luckily I could still walk. After 5-6 miles of walking my wife finally reached me and was gracious enough to let me sit in the passenger's seat on the ride home!
It was an interesting run and I'm thankful I started late and was not an especially fast runner! I think I finished somewhere around 4h 20m which was not my target but around mile 18-19 my knee hurt bad enough to slow me quite a bit.
I am going to run the 2013 Boston Marathon. I have ran for several years and had several people tell me I was doing the distance needed and I should do it. I thought, why not. :-) So this is a bit of my journey...
I actually popped my ankle running at night one night about 5 months before the marathon. I didn't have the time to let it recover as I had to run at least 2 times a week to and from the bus station as I traveled for work every week. Two months before the marathon I decided to experiment with a new shoe (Saucony Kinvara). The shoe was awesome, felt like running on air and gave me great motivation to push on. About three weeks prior to the marathon I started having knee pains in the knee opposite to the leg of my ankle injury, turns out it was due to compensating for the hurt ankle - I discovered this about a month after the marathon.
Go to Hopkinton State Park, take shuttle buses from there to Main St. Buses start at 6am and run until noon. Roads close going into Hopkinton at 7:30 am. Rt. 9 or the Pike will be best bet.
Getting Home :-) we'll deal with this when the time comes. The goal is to hop on the green line afterward and take it to Elliott and have BL pick me up there. We'll see how this works out...
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