Just putting up a quickie post here. Haven’t updated in a long time, but…
I just finished a 10-mile “short” run yesterday, my last long run before I do the Boston Marathon on Monday April 20, 2009. I never wrote here about my experience with my third marathon when I qualified for Boston. That was the [...]

Last week, Sunday October 14, 2007 I ran the Long Beach 2007 Marathon. Finish time 4:15:12. A Personal Record, even if it wasn’t my dream-goal of finishing in 4 hours. I do consider it a success, especially because I have had no injuries since July and I finished the marathon and am recovering well with [...]

So, the L.A. Marathon
… It was race day: Sunday March 4, 2007. I had run the Pacific Shoreline Half-marathon
in 1:42:00 only 4 weeks ago–a 7:47 average pace–which would seem to
indicate that I could do a sub-four-hour marathon. But I had been
injured only a few days after that, with some kind of groin injury on
my left [...]

So yesterday was the 2007 OC Half Marathon from Newport Center up to the Irvine Spectrum. Actually, there was a full marathon too, but I’m saving that for March in L.A.
Here we were at about Mile 7 (a little over half-way through the race). I’m afraid I’m blocking Miriam from view. Oops!:

We were expecting a [...]

Patience:
You can succeed by finishing last.
~ Joe Henderson (Runner)

OK, I haven’t talked about it here, but I recently started running. OK, recently means back in December/January. I’ve run a few races…three 5Ks and a 10K, and somewhat decent times (for my age group).
Anyhow, as recently as a month ago I said I’d never do a marathon. Just sounded like too much. But, I [...]