Posted by David Hanenburg on 18 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: marathon, misc ramblings, road running
Baby!
Time to go and run that little marathon they have up there.
The race is on Monday, I repeat Monday. Strange day for a race but it is a civic holiday (Partriots’ Day) in the state of Massachusetts.
You can check out the progress of all your running friends on the Boston Marathon website come race day.
I [...]
Posted by David Hanenburg on 10 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: inspiration, marathon, road running, running, training
Ryan Hall provided the world another glimpse into what he is made off. This video from GodTube follows along with one of his key workouts in preparation for the London marathon, a nice little 24 mile run with some impressive tempo work.
Ryan’s physical abilities are quite inspiring but what impresses me the most is his [...]
Posted by David Hanenburg on 03 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: inspiration, marathon, road running, running
Here are a couple Boston Marathon videos put together by Adidas.
“Reasons to run the Boston marathon”
What are your reasons?
Enjoy!
2007
2006
Posted by David Hanenburg on 30 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: marathon, running, training
The final key workout of the week included my long run with a strong finish on Saturday morning.
My goal was to run 25 miles broken up as follows:
15 miles at 8:10 min/mile pace (This effort would be defined as an aerobic long run type of pace.)
10 miles of 7:00 min/mile pace (This effort is [...]
Posted by David Hanenburg on 28 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: marathon, running, training
Thursday morning was my second key workout of the week and it involved Yasso 800s on the treadmill. Yasso’s are one of the marathon predictor workouts that let you know if you don’t have the current fitness for your goal pace. The workout involves a set of 800m intervals completed at your marathon finish time [...]
Posted by David Hanenburg on 26 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: marathon, race reports, road running, running
In preparation for any race it is beneficial to know the course. One way of doing this is to read other people’s race reports. With Boston only about a month away, I thought I would hunt around and find some Boston race reports to add to the preparation toolkit. Enjoy!
I have grouped the reports by [...]
Posted by David Hanenburg on 25 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: marathon, running, training
Here is the first completed key workout of the week. It was a nine mile run with 30 minutes of tempo work inserted in the middle.
I was a bit concerned how the body would respond to the effort. Last week the tempo work was very tough mentally but today I seemed to make a giant [...]
Posted by David Hanenburg on 24 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: marathon, running, training
Since I just started my specific training for Boston, I thought I would share my key workouts for the remaining five weeks (now four) and my thoughts with how the fitness is progressing (hopefully). I know 5 weeks out is a bit late to start training for a marathon but I have done a [...]
Posted by David Hanenburg on 19 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: marathon, running
…are now posted! You can look up your number here.
I am lucky number 5477.
In this event the number actually represents which corral you are penned up in for the start. Since I am a 5xxx number I will be in corral 5. The same will hold true for the rest of the bib numbers. Simple [...]
Posted by David Hanenburg on 17 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: marathon, road running, running
I found this cool video that was taken while driving the entire Boston marathon route. If you are new to the course this is definitely worth checking out. It definitely provides a level of familiarity that will be nice on race day.
A commenter also included a video time reference with respect to location on the [...]
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